Video Highlights: Generalized Additive Models – Allowing for some wiggle room in your models

In this video presentation, we’ll unpack GAMs as an extension of generalized linear models, learn about the role of splines in these models, and explore the many choices available to define and fit these models. We’ll be using data on traffic stops to investigate racially-biased policing in South Carolina as a motivating example, and we’ll get a chance to try out the related R code so that you have the basic tools needed to try out GAMs in your own research context.