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SUBMITTER: Pedersen EJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6542350 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pedersen Eric J EJ Miller David L DL Simpson Gavin L GL Ross Noam N
PeerJ 20190527
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 outcomes where the shape of the function itself varies between different grouping levels. We describe the theoretical connection between HGAMs, HGLMs, and GAMs, explain how to model different assumptions ab ...[more]