Flemming, Joanna; Cantoni, Eva; Field, Christopher; … - 2006
applied Generalized Additive Models (GAMs)
to extract the continuous trend functions and patterns of in uence of observer … determining overall more general trends.
Keywords: Seal Island, Generalized additive models, Count data, Overdisperson.
3 J … functions of the explanatory variables.
Generalized Additive models (GAM) provide an alternative as they are a natural extension …