[R] GAM without intercept reports a huge deviance

Hi all, I constructed a GAM model with a linear term and two smooth terms, all of them statistically significant but the intercept was not significant. The adjusted r2 of this model is 0.572 and the deviance 65.3. I decided to run the model again without intercept, so I used in R the following in

[R] deviance and variance - GAM models

Hi all, This is pretty basic but I am not an expert and I couldn't find anything in the forum or my statistics book about it. I was reading a paper and the authors were using both "explained deviance" and "explained variance" as synonyms. They were describing a GAM regression. Is that right? I per