More information: Jiangshan Lai et al, Evaluating the relative importance of predictors in Generalized Additive Models using the gam.hp R package, Plant Diversity (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.pld.2024. ...

OBJECTIVE We investigate the formal application of smooth methods implemented via generalized additive models (GAMs) to the analysis of fertility histories. We also determine whether and where GAMs ...

Some models, such as linear regression, are easily interpretable, but inflexible, in that they don't capture many real-world relationships accurately. Other models, such as neural networks, are quite ...