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 Hello everyone, Apologies in advance, as this is partially a stats question and partially an R question.  I have been using a GAM to model the activity level of bats going into and coming out from a forested edge.  I had eight microphones set up in a line transect at each of eight sites, and I am hoping to construct a model for each of 7 species.  My count data has a reverse J-shaped skew and

Hello, I am having some difficulty converting my gam code to a correct gamm code, and I'm really hoping someone will be able to help me. I was previously using this script for my overdispersed gam data: M30 <-gam(efuscus~s(mic, k=7) +temp +s(date)+s(For3k, k=7) + pressure+ humidity, family=negbin(c(1,10)), data=efuscus) My gam.check gave me the attached result. In order to