Bayesian relative premium calculation: problem with integration in r - r

I ran into a problem, when i was trying to make a program which counts relative premium for policy-holders in bonus malus system, here is the formula for relative premium:
theta is random accident proneness and it follows gamma distribution with parameters(alpha, alpha) which can be seen below in the code, so dF is density function of this distribution. represents stationary distribution in level l, and is counted by this formula: [ where e is vector of 1s I is matrix of identity and E is matrix of 1s, P is transition probability matrix.
Problem is that in formula for relative premium, stationary distribution is dependent from theta, which is something unknown.
Here is what I tried to do: tried to do it through 2 functions, 1 for denominator, 1 for numerator, they count the probability transition matrix, stationary distribution and outputs are then integrated by integrate function, however problem comes when counting the stationary distribution, R says that the arrays are not confortable, i think its because of the unknown theta. this is how the code looks like:
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E <- rbind(c(1,1,1,1,1),c(1,1,1,1,1),c(1,1,1,1,1),c(1,1,1,1,1),c(1,1,1,1,1))
e <- c(1,1,1,1,1)
I <- diag(5)
lambda <- 0.1474
alpha <- 0.889
level <- 5
rl1 <- function(teta){
for(l in 1:level){
M <- rbind(c(exp(-lambda*teta),0,0,0,1-exp(-lambda*teta)),c(exp(-lambda*teta),0,0,0,1-exp(-lambda*teta)),
c(0,exp(-lambda*teta),0,0,1-exp(-lambda*teta)),c(0,0,exp(-lambda*teta),0,1-exp(-lambda*teta)),
c(0,0,0,exp(-lambda*teta),1-exp(-lambda*teta)))
stac <- t(e)%*%solve(I-M+E)
integral1[l] <- teta*stac[l]*alpha^alpha*exp(-alpha*teta)*teta^(alpha-1)/gamma(alpha)
}
return(integral1)
}
x <- integrate(rl1,lower=0,upper=Inf)
rl2 <- function(teta){
for(l in 1:level){
M <- rbind(c(exp(-lambda*teta),0,0,0,1-exp(-lambda*teta)),c(exp(-lambda*teta),0,0,0,1-exp(-lambda*teta)),
c(0,exp(-lambda*teta),0,0,1-exp(-lambda*teta)),c(0,0,exp(-lambda*teta),0,1-exp(-lambda*teta)),
c(0,0,0,exp(-lambda*teta),1-exp(-lambda*teta)))
stac <- t(e)%*%solve(I-M+E)
integral2[l] <- stac[l]*alpha^alpha*exp(-alpha*teta)*teta^(alpha-1)/gamma(alpha)
}
return(integral2)
}
y <- integrate(rl2,lower=0,upper=Inf)
rl <- x/y
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Please can you help me solving this problem?
Thanks

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generating random x and y coordinates with a minimum distance

Is there a way in R to generate random coordinates with a minimum distance between them?
E.g. what I'd like to avoid
x <- c(0,3.9,4.1,8)
y <- c(1,4.1,3.9,7)
plot(x~y)
This is a classical problem from stochastic geometry. Completely random points in space where the number of points falling in disjoint regions are independent of each other corresponds to a homogeneous Poisson point process (in this case in R^2, but could be in almost any space).
An important feature is that the total number of points has to be random before you can have independence of the counts of points in disjoint regions.
For the Poisson process points can be arbitrarily close together. If you define a process by sampling the Poisson process until you don't have any points that are too close together you have the so-called Gibbs Hardcore process. This has been studied a lot in the literature and there are different ways to simulate it. The R package spatstat has functions to do this. rHardcore is a perfect sampler, but if you want a high intensity of points and a big hard core distance it may not terminate in finite time... The distribution can be obtained as the limit of a Markov chain and rmh.default lets you run a Markov chain with a given Gibbs model as its invariant distribution. This finishes in finite time but only gives a realisation of an approximate distribution.
In rmh.default you can also simulate conditional on a fixed number of points. Note that when you sample in a finite box there is of course an upper limit to how many points you can fit with a given hard core radius, and the closer you are to this limit the more problematic it becomes to sample correctly from the distribution.
Example:
library(spatstat)
beta <- 100; R = 0.1
win <- square(1) # Unit square for simulation
X1 <- rHardcore(beta, R, W = win) # Exact sampling -- beware it may run forever for some par.!
plot(X1, main = paste("Exact sim. of hardcore model; beta =", beta, "and R =", R))
minnndist(X1) # Observed min. nearest neighbour dist.
#> [1] 0.102402
Approximate simulation
model <- rmhmodel(cif="hardcore", par = list(beta=beta, hc=R), w = win)
X2 <- rmh(model)
#> Checking arguments..determining simulation windows...Starting simulation.
#> Initial state...Ready to simulate. Generating proposal points...Running Metropolis-Hastings.
plot(X2, main = paste("Approx. sim. of hardcore model; beta =", beta, "and R =", R))
minnndist(X2) # Observed min. nearest neighbour dist.
#> [1] 0.1005433
Approximate simulation conditional on number of points
X3 <- rmh(model, control = rmhcontrol(p=1), start = list(n.start = 42))
#> Checking arguments..determining simulation windows...Starting simulation.
#> Initial state...Ready to simulate. Generating proposal points...Running Metropolis-Hastings.
plot(X3, main = paste("Approx. sim. given n =", 42))
minnndist(X3) # Observed min. nearest neighbour dist.
#> [1] 0.1018068
OK, how about this? You just generate random number pairs without restriction and then remove the onces which are too close. This could be a great start for that:
minimumDistancePairs <- function(x, y, minDistance){
i <- 1
repeat{
distance <- sqrt((x-x[i])^2 + (y-y[i])^2) < minDistance # pythagorean theorem
distance[i] <- FALSE # distance to oneself is always zero
if(any(distance)) { # if too close to any other point
x <- x[-i] # remove element from x
y <- y[-i] # and remove element from y
} else { # otherwise...
i = i + 1 # repeat the procedure with the next element
}
if (i > length(x)) break
}
data.frame(x,y)
}
minimumDistancePairs(
c(0,3.9,4.1,8)
, c(1,4.1,3.9,7)
, 1
)
will lead to
x y
1 0.0 1.0
2 4.1 3.9
3 8.0 7.0
Be aware, though, of the fact that these are not random numbers anymore (however you solve problem).
You can use rejection sapling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rejection_sampling
The principle is simple: you resample until you data verify the condition.
> set.seed(1)
>
> x <- rnorm(2)
> y <- rnorm(2)
> (x[1]-x[2])^2+(y[1]-y[2])^2
[1] 6.565578
> while((x[1]-x[2])^2+(y[1]-y[2])^2 > 1) {
+ x <- rnorm(2)
+ y <- rnorm(2)
+ }
> (x[1]-x[2])^2+(y[1]-y[2])^2
[1] 0.9733252
>
The following is a naive hit-and-miss approach which for some choices of parameters (which were left unspecified in the question) works well. If performance becomes an issue, you could experiment with the package gpuR which has a GPU-accelerated distance matrix calculation.
rand.separated <- function(n,x0,x1,y0,y1,d,trials = 1000){
for(i in 1:trials){
nums <- cbind(runif(n,x0,x1),runif(n,y0,y1))
if(min(dist(nums)) >= d) return(nums)
}
return(NA) #no luck
}
This repeatedly draws samples of size n in [x0,x1]x[y0,y1] and then throws the sample away if it doesn't satisfy. As a safety, trials guards against an infinite loop. If solutions are hard to find or n is large you might need to increase or decrease trials.
For example:
> set.seed(2018)
> nums <- rand.separated(25,0,10,0,10,0.2)
> plot(nums)
runs almost instantly and produces:
Im not sure what you are asking.
if you want random coordinates here.
c(
runif(1,max=y[1],min=x[1]),
runif(1,max=y[2],min=x[2]),
runif(1,min=y[3],max=x[3]),
runif(1,min=y[4],max=x[4])
)

Constrained optimization of a vector

I have a (non-symmetric) probability matrix, and an observed vector of integer outcomes. I would like to find a vector that maximises the probability of the outcomes, given the transition matrix. Simply, I am trying to estimate a distribution of particles at sea given their ultimate distribution on land, and a matrix of probabilities of a particle released from a given point in the ocean ending up at a given point on the land.
The vector that I want to find is subject to the constraint that all components must be between 0-1, and the sum of the components must equal 1. I am trying to figure out the best optimisation approach for the problem.
My transition matrix and data set are quite large, but I have created a smaller one here:
I used a simulated known at- sea distribution of
msim<-c(.3,.2,.1,.3,.1,0) and a simulated probability matrix (t) to come up with an estimated coastal matrix (Datasim2), as follows:
t<-matrix (c(0,.1,.1,.1,.1,.2,0,.1,0,0,.3,0,0,0,0,.4,.1,.3,0,.1,0,.1,.4,0,0,0,.1,0,.1,.1),
nrow=5,ncol=6, byrow=T)
rownames(t)<-c("C1","C2","C3","C4","C5") ### locations on land
colnames(t)<-c("S1","S2","S3","S4","S5","S6") ### locations at sea
Datasim<-as.numeric (round((t %*% msim)*500))
Datasim2<-c(rep("C1",95), rep("C2",35), rep("C3",90),rep("C4",15),rep("C5",30))
M <-c(0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1) ## starting M
I started with a straightforward function as follows:
EstimateSource3<-function(M,Data,T){
EstEndProbsall<-M%*%T
TotalLkhd<-rep(NA, times=dim(Data)[1])
for (j in 1:dim(Data)[1]){
ObsEstEndLkhd<-0
ObsEstEndLkhd<-1-EstEndProbsall[1,] ## likelihood of particle NOT ending up at locations other than the location of interest
IndexC<-which(colnames(EstEndProbsall)==Data$LocationCode[j], arr.ind=T) ## likelihood of ending up at location of interest
ObsEstEndLkhd[IndexC]<-EstEndProbsall[IndexC]
#Total likelihood
TotalLkhd[j]<-sum(log(ObsEstEndLkhd))
}
SumTotalLkhd<-sum(TotalLkhd)
return(SumTotalLkhd)
}
DistributionEstimate <- optim(par = M, fn = EstimateSource3, Data = Datasim2, T=t,
control = list(fnscale = -1, trace=5, maxit=500), lower = 0, upper = 1)
To constrain the sum to 1, I tried using a few of the suggestions posted here:How to set parameters' sum to 1 in constrained optimization
e.g. adding M<-M/sum(M) or SumTotalLkhd<-SumTotalLkhd-(10*pwr) to the body of the function, but neither yielded anything like msim, and in fact, the 2nd solution came up with the error “L-BFGS-B needs finite values of 'fn'”
I thought perhaps the quadprog package might be of some help, but I don’t think I have a symmetric positive definite matrix…
Thanks in advance for your help!
What about that: Let D = distribution at land, M = at sea, T the transition matrix. You know D, T, you want to calculate M. You have
D' = M' T
hence D' T' = M' (T T')
and accordingly D'T'(T T')^(-1) = M'
Basically you solve it as when doing linear regression (seems SO does not support math notation: ' is transpose, ^(-1) is ordinary matrix inverse.)
Alternatively, D may be counts of particles, and now you can ask questions like: what is the most likely distribution of particles at sea. That needs a different approach though.
Well, I have never done such models but think along the following lines. Let M be of length 3 and D of length 2, and T is hence 3x2. We know T and we observe D_1 particles at location 1 and D_2 particles at location 2.
What is the likelihood that you observe one particle at location D_1? It is Pr(D = 1) = M_1 T_11 + M_2 T_21 + M_3 T_32. Analogously, Pr(D = 2) = M_1 T_12 + M_2 T_22 + M_3 T_32. Now you can easily write the log-likelihood of observing D_1 and D_2 particles at locations 1 and 2. The code might look like this:
loglik <- function(M) {
if(M[1] < 0 | M[1] > 1)
return(NA)
if(M[2] < 0 | M[2] > 1)
return(NA)
M3 <- 1 - M[1] - M[2]
if(M3 < 0 | M3 > 1)
return(NA)
D[1]*log(T[1,1]*M[1] + T[2,1]*M[2] + T[3,1]*M3) +
D[2]*log(T[1,2]*M[1] + T[2,2]*M[2] + T[3,2]*M3)
}
T <- matrix(c(0.1,0.2,0.3,0.9,0.8,0.7), 3, 2)
D <- c(100,200)
library(maxLik)
m <- maxLik(loglik, start=c(0.4,0.4), method="BFGS")
summary(m)
I get the answer (0, 0.2, 0.8) when I estimate it but standard errors are very large.
As I told, I have never done it so I don't know it it makes sense.

Defining a threshold for results in lsoda, R language

I have a problem with lsoda in deSolve package in R. (It might be applicable to ode function too). I am modeling the dynamics of a food web using a set of ODEs calculating abundances of 5 species in two identical food webs which are connected through dispersal.
the abundances are calculated in 2000 time steps, and they are not supposed to be negative or less than 1e-6. In that case the result should be changed into 0. I could not find any parameter for lsoda to turn negative results into zero. I tried the following trick in my ODE function:
solve.model <- function(t,y, parms){
solve.model <- function(t,y, parms){
y <- ifelse(y<1e-6, 0, y)
#ODE functions here
#...
#...
return(list(dy))
}
but it seems not working. Below is a sample of abundances of species in a web.
I will be very grateful for your help, and hope the sample code can give enough information about my problem.
Babak
P.S. I am solving the following ODE set for the abundances of species(the first two equations) and resource change (third equation)
the corresponding code for the function is as below
solve.model <- function(t, y, parms){
y <- ifelse(y<1e-6, 0, y)
with(parms,{
# return from vector form into matrix form for calculations
(R <- as.matrix(y[(max(no.species)*length(no.species)+1):length(y)]))
(N <- matrix(y[1:(max(no.species)*length(no.species))], ncol=length(no.species)))
dy1 <- matrix(nrow=max(no.species), ncol=length(no.species))
dy2 <- matrix(nrow=length(no.species), ncol=1)
for (i in 1:no.webs){
species <- no.species[i]
(abundance <- N[1:species,i])
adj <- as.matrix(webs[[i]])
a.temp <- a[1:species, 1:species]*adj
b.temp <- b[1:species, 1:species]*adj
h.temp <- h[1:species, 1:species]*adj
#Calculating sigmas in denominator of Holing type II functional response
(sum.over.preys <- abundance%*%(a.temp*h.temp))
(sum.over.predators <- (a.temp*h.temp)%*%abundance)
#Calculating growth of basal
(basal.growth <- basals[,i]*N[,i]*(mu*R[i]/(K+R[i])-m))
# Calculating growth for non-basal species
no.basal <- rep(1,len=species)-basals[1:species]
predator.growth<- rep(0, max(no.species))
(predator.growth[1:species] <- ((abundance%*%(a.temp*b.temp))/(1+sum.over.preys)-m*no.basal)*abundance)
predation <- rep(0, max(no.species))
(predation[1:species] <- (((a.temp*b.temp)%*%abundance)/t(1+sum.over.preys))*abundance)
(pop <- basal.growth + predator.growth - predation)
dy1[,i] <- pop
dy2[i] <- 0.0005 #Change in the resource
}
#Calculating dispersals .they can be easily replaced
# by adjacency maps of connections between food webs arbitrarily!
# added to solve the problem of negative abundances
deltas <- append(c(dy1), dy2)
return(list(append(c(dy1),dy2)))
})
}
this function is used by lsoda by the following call:
temp.abund[[j]] <- lsoda(y=initials, func=solve.model, times=0:max.time, parms=parms)

Generating Random Variables with given correlations between pairs of them:

I want to generate 2 continuous random variables Q1, Q2 (quantitative traits, each are normal) and 2 binary random variables Z1, Z2 (binary traits) with given pairwise correlations between all possible pairs of them.
Say
(Q1,Q2):0.23
(Q1,Z1):0.55
(Q1,Z2):0.45
(Q2,Z1):0.4
(Q2,Z2):0.5
(Z1,Z2):0.47
Please help me generate such data in R.
This is crude but might get you started in the right direction.
library(copula)
options(digits=3)
probs <- c(0.5,0.5)
corrs <- c(0.23,0.55,0.45,0.4,0.5,0.47) ## lower triangle
Simulate correlated values (first two quantitative, last two transformed to binary)
sim <- function(n,probs,corrs) {
tmp <- normalCopula( corrs, dim=4 , "un")
getSigma(tmp) ## test
x <- rCopula(1000, tmp)
x2 <- x
x2[,3:4] <- qbinom(x[,3:4],size=1,prob=rep(probs,each=nrow(x)))
x2
}
Test SSQ distance between observed and target correlations:
objfun <- function(corrs,targetcorrs,probs,n=1000) {
cc <- try(cor(sim(n,probs,corrs)),silent=TRUE)
if (is(cc,"try-error")) return(NA)
sum((cc[lower.tri(cc)]-targetcorrs)^2)
}
See how bad things are when input corrs=target:
cc0 <- cor(sim(1000,probs=probs,corrs=corrs))
cc0[lower.tri(cc0)]
corrs
objfun(corrs,corrs,probs=probs) ## 0.112
Now try to optimize.
opt1 <- optim(fn=objfun,
par=corrs,
targetcorrs=corrs,probs=c(0.5,0.5))
opt1$value ## 0.0208
Stops after 501 iterations with "max iterations exceeded". This will never work really well because we're trying to use a deterministic hill-climbing algorithm on a stochastic objective function ...
cc1 <- cor(sim(1000,probs=c(0.5,0.5),corrs=opt1$par))
cc1[lower.tri(cc1)]
corrs
Maybe try simulated annealing?
opt2 <- optim(fn=objfun,
par=corrs,
targetcorrs=corrs,probs=c(0.5,0.5),
method="SANN")
It doesn't seem to do much better than the previous value. Two possible problems (left as an exercise for the reader are) (1) we have specified a set of correlations that are not feasible with the marginal distributions we have chosen, or (2) the error in the objective function surface is getting in the way -- to do better we would have to average over more replicates (i.e. increase n).

Generating random sample from the quantiles of unknown density in R [duplicate]

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How can I generate random sample data from the quantiles of the unknown density f(x) for x between 0 and 4 in R?
f = function(x) ((x-1)^2) * exp(-(x^3/3-2*x^2/2+x))
If I understand you correctly (??) you want to generate random samples with the distribution whose density function is given by f(x). One way to do this is to generate a random sample from a uniform distribution, U[0,1], and then transform this sample to your density. This is done using the inverse cdf of f, a methodology which has been described before, here.
So, let
f(x) = your density function,
F(x) = cdf of f(x), and
F.inv(y) = inverse cdf of f(x).
In R code:
f <- function(x) {((x-1)^2) * exp(-(x^3/3-2*x^2/2+x))}
F <- function(x) {integrate(f,0,x)$value}
F <- Vectorize(F)
F.inv <- function(y){uniroot(function(x){F(x)-y},interval=c(0,10))$root}
F.inv <- Vectorize(F.inv)
x <- seq(0,5,length.out=1000)
y <- seq(0,1,length.out=1000)
par(mfrow=c(1,3))
plot(x,f(x),type="l",main="f(x)")
plot(x,F(x),type="l",main="CDF of f(x)")
plot(y,F.inv(y),type="l",main="Inverse CDF of f(x)")
In the code above, since f(x) is only defined on [0,Inf], we calculate F(x) as the integral of f(x) from 0 to x. Then we invert that using the uniroot(...) function on F-y. The use of Vectorize(...) is needed because, unlike almost all R functions, integrate(...) and uniroot(...) do not operate on vectors. You should look up the help files on these functions for more information.
Now we just generate a random sample X drawn from U[0,1] and transform it with Z = F.inv(X)
X <- runif(1000,0,1) # random sample from U[0,1]
Z <- F.inv(X)
Finally, we demonstrate that Z is indeed distributed as f(x).
par(mfrow=c(1,2))
plot(x,f(x),type="l",main="Density function")
hist(Z, breaks=20, xlim=c(0,5))
Rejection sampling is easy enough:
drawF <- function(n) {
f <- function(x) ((x-1)^2) * exp(-(x^3/3-2*x^2/2+x))
x <- runif(n, 0 ,4)
z <- runif(n)
subset(x, z < f(x)) # Rejection
}
Not the most efficient but it gets the job done.
Use sample . Generate a vector of probablities from your existing function f, normalized properly. From the help page:
sample(x, size, replace = FALSE, prob = NULL)
Arguments
x Either a vector of one or more elements from which to choose, or a positive integer. See ‘Details.’
n a positive number, the number of items to choose from. See ‘Details.’
size a non-negative integer giving the number of items to choose.
replace Should sampling be with replacement?
prob A vector of probability weights for obtaining the elements of the vector being sampled.

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