Figure 3.

Generalized additive model (GAM) plots showing estimated effects of selected significant variables in the longitudinal remission model, in the non-discretized model (top row) and discretized model (bottom row). Plots may be read by comparing one value on the x-axis to another and can be read off as the vertical distance between the respective y-values. Horizontal blue line denotates 0 (no effect), solid blue line represents the estimated effect of different values of the covariates and discontinuous red lines represent 95% confidence intervals. * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001.