Re: [R] deviance and variance - GAM models

2012-01-15 Thread Simon Wood
On 01/13/2012 08:25 PM, collifu wrote: Hi all, This is pretty basic but I am not an expert and I couldn't find anything in the forum or my statistics book about it. I was reading a paper and the authors were using both explained deviance and explained variance as synonyms. They were describing

[R] deviance and variance - GAM models

2012-01-13 Thread collifu
Hi all, This is pretty basic but I am not an expert and I couldn't find anything in the forum or my statistics book about it. I was reading a paper and the authors were using both explained deviance and explained variance as synonyms. They were describing a GAM regression. Is that right? I