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[](https://mc-stan.org/)
-*mvgam*
-================
+# mvgam
+
+> **M**ulti**V**ariate (Dynamic) **G**eneralized **A**ddivite **M**odels
+
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+[![Documentation](https://img.shields.io/badge/documentation-mvgam-orange.svg?colorB=E91E63)](https://nicholasjclark.github.io/mvgam/)
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-The goal of `mvgam` is to fit Bayesian Dynamic Generalized Additive Models to time series data. The motivation for the package is described in [Clark & Wells 2022](https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.13974){target="_blank"} (published in *Methods in Ecology and Evolution*), with additional inspiration on the use of Bayesian probabilistic modelling coming from [Michael Betancourt](https://betanalpha.github.io/writing/){target="_blank"}, [Michael Dietze](https://www.bu.edu/earth/profiles/michael-dietze/){target="_blank"} and [Sarah Heaps](https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/sarah-e-heaps/){target="_blank"}, among many others.
+The goal of `mvgam` is to fit Bayesian (Dynamic) Generalized Additive Models. This package constructs State-Space models that can include highly flexible nonlinear predictor effects for both process and observation components by leveraging functionalities from the impressive [`brms`](https://paulbuerkner.com/brms/){target="_blank"} and [`mgcv`](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/mgcv/index.html){target="_blank"} packages. This allows `mvgam` to fit a wide range of models, including hierarchical ecological models such as N-mixture or Joint Species Distribution models, as well as univariate and multivariate time series models with imperfect detection. The original motivation for the package is described in [Clark & Wells 2022](https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.13974){target="_blank"} (published in *Methods in Ecology and Evolution*), with additional inspiration on the use of Bayesian probabilistic modelling coming from [Michael Betancourt](https://betanalpha.github.io/writing/){target="_blank"}, [Michael Dietze](https://www.bu.edu/earth/profiles/michael-dietze/){target="_blank"} and [Sarah Heaps](https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/sarah-e-heaps/){target="_blank"}, among many others.
## Resources
A series of [vignettes cover data formatting, forecasting and several extended case studies of DGAMs](https://nicholasjclark.github.io/mvgam/){target="_blank"}. A number of other examples have also been compiled:
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[](https://mc-stan.org/)
-# *mvgam*
+# mvgam
+
+> **M**ulti**V**ariate (Dynamic) **G**eneralized **A**ddivite **M**odels
[![R-CMD-check](https://github.com/nicholasjclark/mvgam/actions/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/nicholasjclark/mvgam/actions/)
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status](https://github.com/nicholasjclark/mvgam/actions/workflows/test-coverage.yaml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/nicholasjclark/mvgam/actions/workflows/test-coverage.yaml)
[![Coverage
status](https://codecov.io/gh/nicholasjclark/mvgam/graph/badge.svg?token=RCJ2B7S0BL)](https://app.codecov.io/gh/nicholasjclark/mvgam)
+[![Documentation](https://img.shields.io/badge/documentation-mvgam-orange.svg?colorB=E91E63)](https://nicholasjclark.github.io/mvgam/)
[![CRAN
Version](https://www.r-pkg.org/badges/version/mvgam)](https://cran.r-project.org/package=mvgam)
[![CRAN
Downloads](https://cranlogs.r-pkg.org/badges/grand-total/mvgam?color=brightgreen)](https://cran.r-project.org/package=mvgam)
-The goal of `mvgam` is to fit Bayesian Dynamic Generalized Additive
-Models to time series data. The motivation for the package is described
-in brms
and
+mgcv
packages. This allows `mvgam` to
+fit a wide range of models, including hierarchical ecological models
+such as N-mixture or Joint Species Distribution models, as well as
+univariate and multivariate time series models with imperfect detection.
+The original motivation for the package is described in Clark & Wells 2022 (published in *Methods in
Ecology and Evolution*), with additional inspiration on the use of
@@ -226,28 +238,28 @@ summary(lynx_mvgam)
#>
#> GAM coefficient (beta) estimates:
#> 2.5% 50% 97.5% Rhat n_eff
-#> (Intercept) 6.400 6.60 6.900 1.00 910
-#> s(season).1 -0.640 -0.13 0.360 1.00 1169
-#> s(season).2 0.760 1.40 1.900 1.01 850
-#> s(season).3 1.300 1.90 2.500 1.01 953
-#> s(season).4 -0.018 0.55 1.200 1.00 1102
-#> s(season).5 -1.300 -0.70 -0.069 1.00 1019
-#> s(season).6 -1.200 -0.56 0.093 1.00 1011
-#> s(season).7 0.039 0.73 1.400 1.00 1006
-#> s(season).8 0.580 1.40 2.200 1.00 1041
-#> s(season).9 -0.360 0.23 0.820 1.00 735
-#> s(season).10 -1.400 -0.88 -0.380 1.00 908
+#> (Intercept) 6.400 6.60 6.900 1.00 821
+#> s(season).1 -0.640 -0.12 0.390 1.00 1356
+#> s(season).2 0.780 1.30 1.900 1.00 1241
+#> s(season).3 1.300 1.90 2.500 1.00 889
+#> s(season).4 -0.062 0.53 1.200 1.00 1119
+#> s(season).5 -1.300 -0.72 -0.099 1.01 1113
+#> s(season).6 -1.300 -0.57 0.092 1.00 1101
+#> s(season).7 0.023 0.70 1.400 1.00 1355
+#> s(season).8 0.640 1.40 2.100 1.01 1111
+#> s(season).9 -0.370 0.21 0.830 1.01 847
+#> s(season).10 -1.400 -0.87 -0.370 1.00 1108
#>
#> Approximate significance of GAM smooths:
#> edf Ref.df Chi.sq p-value
-#> s(season) 9.99 10 48.3 <2e-16 ***
+#> s(season) 9.97 10 48.8 <2e-16 ***
#> ---
#> Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
#>
#> Latent trend parameter AR estimates:
#> 2.5% 50% 97.5% Rhat n_eff
-#> ar1[1] 0.60 0.83 0.98 1 592
-#> sigma[1] 0.39 0.48 0.60 1 855
+#> ar1[1] 0.61 0.83 0.99 1.01 666
+#> sigma[1] 0.38 0.48 0.60 1.00 688
#>
#> Stan MCMC diagnostics:
#> n_eff / iter looks reasonable for all parameters
@@ -256,7 +268,7 @@ summary(lynx_mvgam)
#> 0 of 2000 iterations saturated the maximum tree depth of 12 (0%)
#> E-FMI indicated no pathological behavior
#>
-#> Samples were drawn using NUTS(diag_e) at Mon Sep 30 3:06:32 PM 2024.
+#> Samples were drawn using NUTS(diag_e) at Thu Oct 24 1:32:39 PM 2024.
#> For each parameter, n_eff is a crude measure of effective sample size,
#> and Rhat is the potential scale reduction factor on split MCMC chains
#> (at convergence, Rhat = 1)
@@ -393,7 +405,7 @@ series (testing and training)
``` r
plot(lynx_mvgam, type = 'forecast', newdata = lynx_test)
#> Out of sample DRPS:
-#> 2398.60613875
+#> 2470.51814475
```
@@ -554,7 +566,7 @@ summary(mod, include_betas = FALSE)
#> 0 of 2000 iterations saturated the maximum tree depth of 12 (0%)
#> E-FMI indicated no pathological behavior
#>
-#> Samples were drawn using NUTS(diag_e) at Mon Sep 30 3:07:18 PM 2024.
+#> Samples were drawn using NUTS(diag_e) at Thu Oct 24 1:33:28 PM 2024.
#> For each parameter, n_eff is a crude measure of effective sample size,
#> and Rhat is the potential scale reduction factor on split MCMC chains
#> (at convergence, Rhat = 1)
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