Introduction | Set up R environment | Data preparation and description | Model evaluation | Metrics for numeric prediction | Descriptive versus predictive metrics | OLS regression | Model training | ALE analysis | Random forest | GAM | Single ALE on entire dataset | ALE on bootstrapped models | Discussion | Comparison with Gomez and Gomez (1984) | Explicit Points of Agreement | Direct Points of Disagreement | Additional Nuances Beyond Gomez and Gomez | Conclusion | References

Introduction | Setup R environment | Dataset: ACDC corn yields | Corn data preparation | Data description | Removal of county identifier | Model evaluation | Cross-validation function | OLS regression | Random forest | ALE analysis | Full ALE results: all main effects and interactions | Statistical reliability vs practical importance | Data-only bootstrapped ALE results on focal variables | ALE plots | Conclusion | Methodological comments | Key findings | A note on unsurprising results | References

var_cars: modified mtcars dataset (Motor Trend Car Road Tests) | Modelling with ALE and GAM

Example dataset | Full model bootstrap | Create p-value distribution objects | Bootstrap the model with p-values | ALE effect size measures | ALE plots with p-values | ALE plots without p-values | ALE effect size measures on the scale of the y outcome variable | ALE range (ALER) | ALE deviation (ALED) | Normalized ALE effect size measures | Normalized ALER (NALER) | Normalized ALED (NALED) | The ALER band and random variables | Interpretation of normalized ALE effect sizes | Statistical inference with ALE | ALE data structures for categorical and numeric variables | Bootstrap-based inference with ALE

What is a "small" dataset? | attitude dataset | Format | Source | ALE for ordinary least squares regression (multiple linear regression) | Full model bootstrapping | ALE for generalized additive models (GAM) | model_call_string argument for models not automatically detected

diamonds dataset | Modelling with generalized additive models (GAM) | ALE object for ALE data | Bootstrapped ALE | ALE interactions