Timeline for Why are generalized additive models (GAMs) so popular in ecology?
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| Dec 1, 2022 at 18:50 | comment | added | shadowtalker | Yes, that's a consequence of additivity, but your answer doesn't mention additivity at all! So it left me wondering what, if anything, is particularly appealing about an additive model as opposed to any other model. Is it a matter of interpreting the model? Is additivity an appealing property in ecology research for some domain-specific reason? Etc. | |
| Dec 1, 2022 at 18:31 | comment | added | Alexis | @shadowtalker Re: "interesting property", I think this is just the additivity assumption in GAM? (And, for that matter all linear additive models, e.g., multiple linear regression, multiple GLM, etc.) | |
| Dec 1, 2022 at 17:58 | comment | added | shadowtalker | Is this not also true of gradient boosted trees, random forests, and neural networks? GAMs have the interesting property that the functional form can be determined separately for each input feature (see e.g. here), rather than the model trying to find a single "joint" functional form. | |
| Nov 28, 2022 at 21:06 | vote | accept | Adam_G | ||
| Nov 28, 2022 at 18:29 | history | edited | Alexis | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 28, 2022 at 18:19 | history | answered | Alexis | CC BY-SA 4.0 |