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 Since GAMs are additive, it is easy to examine the effect of each $X_i$ on $y$ individually while holding all other predictors constant.
 
-As a result, GAMs are a class of very flexible and interpretable models, which also make it is easy to incorporate prior knowledge and control overfitting.
+As a result, GAMs are a class of very flexible and interpretable models, which also make it easy to incorporate prior knowledge and control overfitting.
 
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