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Simon Wood

Statistics, School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, UK
Verified email at bath.edu
Cited by 49850

A review of GaN on SiC high electron-mobility power transistors and MMICs

RS Pengelly, SM Wood, JW Milligan… - IEEE Transactions …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Gallium-nitride power transistor (GaN HEMT) and integrated circuit technologies have
matured dramatically over the last few years, and many hundreds of thousands of devices …

Model averaging in ecology: A review of Bayesian, information‐theoretic, and tactical approaches for predictive inference

CF Dormann, JM Calabrese… - Ecological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In ecology, the true causal structure for a given problem is often not known, and several
plausible models and thus model predictions exist. It has been claimed that using weighted …

Analyzing the time course of pupillometric data

J van Rij, P Hendriks, H van Rijn… - Trends in …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
This article provides a tutorial for analyzing pupillometric data. Pupil dilation has become
increasingly popular in psychological and psycholinguistic research as a measure to trace …

[BOOK][B] Generalized additive models: an introduction with R

SN Wood - 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
The first edition of this book has established itself as one of the leading references on
generalized additive models (GAMs), and the only book on the topic to be introductory in …

Fast stable restricted maximum likelihood and marginal likelihood estimation of semiparametric generalized linear models

SN Wood - Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Recent work by Reiss and Ogden provides a theoretical basis for sometimes preferring
restricted maximum likelihood (REML) to generalized cross-validation (GCV) for smoothing …

Thin plate regression splines

SN Wood - Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
I discuss the production of low rank smoothers for d≥ 1 dimensional data, which can be
fitted by regression or penalized regression methods. The smoothers are constructed by a …

Stable and efficient multiple smoothing parameter estimation for generalized additive models

SN Wood - Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
Representation of generalized additive models (GAM's) using penalized regression splines
allows GAM's to be employed in a straightforward manner using penalized regression …

[PDF][PDF] Package 'mgcv'

S Wood, MS Wood - R package version, 2015 - cran.uib.no
Description Generalized additive (mixed) models, some of their extensions and other
generalized ridge regression with multiple smoothing parameter estimation by (Restricted) …

Making mistakes when predicting shifts in species range in response to global warming

AJ Davis, LS Jenkinson, JH Lawton, B Shorrocks… - Nature, 1998 - nature.com
Many attempts to predict the biotic responses to climate change rely on the 'climate
envelope'approach,,, in which the current distribution of a species is mapped in climate …

Smoothing parameter and model selection for general smooth models

SN Wood, N Pya, B Säfken - Journal of the American Statistical …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
This article discusses a general framework for smoothing parameter estimation for models
with regular likelihoods constructed in terms of unknown smooth functions of covariates …