Hierarchical generalized additive models in ecology: an introduction with mgcv

J. Pedersen, Eric; L. Miller, David; L. Simpson, Gavin; Ross, Noam

doi:10.7717/peerj.6876

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Hierarchical generalized additive models in ecology: an introduction with mgcv

Published in PeerJ • May 27, 2019

Authors:

Eric J. Pedersen

David L. Miller

Gavin L. Simpson

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss an extension to two popular approaches to modeling complex structures in ecological data: the generalized additive model (GAM) and the hierarchical model (HGLM). The hierarchical GAM (HGAM), allows modeling of nonlinear functional relationships between covariates and outcom...

Subject

Generalized additive model

Covariate

Hierarchical database model

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