STARS
Preface
Audience
Prerequisites
Goal
Outline
Workshop Setup
RStudio
Data
Other
Why not just use standard methods?
Heteroscedasticity, non-normality etc.
Polynomial Regression
A more complex relationship
Polynomial regression is problematic
Building up to GAMs
Piecewise polynomial
Introducing GAMs
Polynomial spline
Practical GAM
Getting started
Fitting the model
Visualizing the effects
Issues
Summary
Exercises
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
2a
2b
2c
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Technical details
GAM Introduction
Penalized regression
A detailed example
Preview of other bases
The number of knots and where to put them.
Interpreting output for smooth terms
Effective degrees of freedom
Deviance explained
Visual depiction
References
My God! It’s full of STARs!
My God! It’s full of STARs!
Using Astrology to Enhance
Your
Results!
Michael Clark
https://m-clark.github.io/
2018-09-01