Hi all, I am not sure how to handle interactions with categorical predictors in the GAM models. For example what is the different between these bellow two models. Tests are indicating that they are different but their predictions are essentially the same.
Thanks a bunch, > gam.1 <- gam(mortality.under.2~ maternal_age_c+ I(maternal_age_c^2)+ + s(birth_year,by=wealth) + + + wealth + sex + + residence+ maternal_educ + birth_order, + ,data=rwanda2,family="binomial") > > gam.2 <- gam(mortality.under.2~ maternal_age_c+ I(maternal_age_c^2)+ + s(birth_year,by=wealth) + + + sex + + residence+ maternal_educ + birth_order, + ,data=rwanda2,family="binomial") > > anova(gam.1,gam.2,test="Chi") Analysis of Deviance Table Model 1: mortality.under.2 ~ maternal_age_c + I(maternal_age_c^2) + s(birth_year, by = wealth) + +wealth + sex + residence + maternal_educ + birth_order Model 2: mortality.under.2 ~ maternal_age_c + I(maternal_age_c^2) + s(birth_year, by = wealth) + +sex + residence + maternal_educ + birth_order Resid. Df Resid. Dev Df Deviance Pr(>Chi) 1 28986 24175 2 28989 24196 -3.6952 -21.378 0.0001938 *** --- Signif. codes: 0 *** 0.001 ** 0.01 * 0.05 . 0.1 1 > str(rwanda2) 'data.frame': 29027 obs. of 18 variables: $ CASEID : Factor w/ 10718 levels " 1 5 2",..: 289 2243 7475 9982 6689 10137 7426 428 8415 10426 ... $ mortality.under.2 : int 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 ... $ maternal_age_disct: Factor w/ 3 levels "-25","+35","25-35": 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 3 1 ... $ maternal_age : int 18 21 21 23 21 22 26 18 27 21 ... $ time : int 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 ... $ child_mortality : num 0.232 0.232 0.232 0.232 0.232 ... $ democracy : Factor w/ 1 level "dictatorship": 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ... $ wealth : Factor w/ 5 levels "Lowest quintile",..: 2 4 1 4 5 1 4 1 4 5 ... $ birth_year : int 1970 1970 1970 1970 1970 1970 1970 1970 1970 1970 ... $ residence : Factor w/ 2 levels "Rural","Urban": 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 ... $ birth_order : int 1 2 2 5 1 1 3 1 2 2 ... $ maternal_educ : Factor w/ 4 levels "Higher","No education",..: 3 2 2 3 4 2 3 2 2 2 ... $ sex : Factor w/ 2 levels "Female","Male": 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 2 2 2 ... $ quinquennium : Factor w/ 7 levels "00-5's","70-4",..: 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 ... $ time.1 : int 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 ... $ new_time : int 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ... $ maternal_age_c : num -6.12 -3.12 -3.12 -1.12 -3.12 ... $ birth_year_c : num -14.8 -14.8 -14.8 -14.8 -14.8 ... [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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