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SERIES B
Statistical Methodology

Soap film smoothing, by S. N. Wood, M. V. Bravington and S. L. Hedley, pages 931–955

* The code is provided as an R source package. See
http://cran.r-project.org for details of the format,
and packge installation instructions. It requires R with package `mgcv'.

* The code was tested with R 2.7.0 and mgcv 1.4-1.

* The package code defaults to Multigrid solution of
the soap film basis defining PDEs. The paper used SOR, which is still available as an option. The packaged code is 5-10 time faster than we reported in section 5.3 of the paper.

* The default PDE solution tolerances are fairly sloppy. We were much more paranoid for the paper, but it doesn't seem to make any statistically important difference.

Simon N. Wood
Department of Mathematical Sciences
University of Bath
Claverton Down
Bath
BA2 7AY

E-mail: s.wood@bath.ac.uk

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Statistics in Society

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Statistical Methodology

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Applied Statistics

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The Statistician