Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), Vol. 67, No. 2 (FEBRUARY 2018), pp. 453-480 (28 pages) Environmental epidemiological studies of the health effects of air ...

We study generalized additive models, with shape restrictions (e.g. monotonicity, convexity and concavity) imposed on each component of the additive prediction function. We show that this framework ...

Interpretability has drawn increasing attention in machine learning. Partially linear additive models provide an attractive middle ground between the simplicity of generalized linear model and the ...