[R] How to avoid overfitting in gam(mgcv)

[Simon Wood]

>
> "Here I try to mean by "overfitting" that GCV was significantly SMALLER
> than the mean square error of prediction of the validation data, which
> was randomly selected and not used for regression."
--- so you could try increasing gamma until this is no longer the case. 


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