Variance components of tensor interactions in R::mgcv - r

Why does the mgcv::gam.vcomp show two variance components for interactions made with mgcv::ti?¨
I can't seem to find the explanation or the between-the-lines explanation anywhere. Is is perhaps variance attributed to each components in the interaction?
require(mgcv)
test1 <- function(x,z,sx=0.3,sz=0.4) {
x <- x*20
(pi**sx*sz)*(1.2*exp(-(x-0.2)^2/sx^2-(z-0.3)^2/sz^2)+
0.8*exp(-(x-0.7)^2/sx^2-(z-0.8)^2/sz^2))
}
n <- 500
old.par <- par(mfrow=c(2,2))
x <- runif(n)/20;z <- runif(n);
xs <- seq(0,1,length=30)/20;zs <- seq(0,1,length=30)
pr <- data.frame(x=rep(xs,30),z=rep(zs,rep(30,30)))
truth <- matrix(test1(pr$x,pr$z),30,30)
f <- test1(x,z)
y <- f + rnorm(n)*0.2
b3 <- gam(y~ ti(x) + ti(z) + ti(x,z))
b3s <- gam(y~ ti(x) + ti(z) + s(x,z)) # describing the itneraction with s().
I know we're sort of mixing apples and oranges here.
gam.vcomp(b3)
ti(x) ti(z) ti(x,z)1 ti(x,z)2
0.06609731 0.01476070 0.08834218 0.05700322
gam.vcomp(b3s)
ti(x) ti(z) s(x,z)
0.1623056 2.4870344 7.7484987

You'll see the same behaviour with te(x, z)
> b <- gam(y ~ te(x,z))
> gam.vcomp(b)
te(x,z)1 te(x,z)2
0.08668107 0.04596708
and arises because tensor product smooths are defined by two, in this case, marginal bases, each of which have a smoothness parameter. Hence there are two variance components, one per smoothness parameter/marginal basis.
ti(x,z)1 is the variance component for the marginal basis of x,
ti(x,z)2 is the variance component for the marginal basis of z.
As these tensor product interactions smooth have had the main effects removed from them, physical interpretation is complicated, but in a practical sense, the values are the variance component interpretation of the smoothness parameters of the marginal bases.
The reason s(x, z) has just one variance component is that it is a 2-d thinplate spline basis. This basis is isotropic; there is the same smoothness in the to dimensions and hence a single smoothness parameter is required for the basis. Hence there is a single variance component.

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How to handle zero-inflated (semi-)continuous data in R?

I would like to model / fit Value on explanatory variables Type and Material (Value ~ Material + Type). Having a look at the sample test data provided here, one could see that Material X has all zero Values except for one, which makes the distribution of Value zero-inflated, across all observations. Given the model diagnostics, linear assumptions do not hold here.
Value is a numeric variable, and all observations are independent from each other.
I would like to know how can I find a proper distribution for this data, or transform it in a way that I could handle these zeros.
I read about gamlss and pscl packages, but I struggled applying them to my data.
ID <- seq(from = 1, to = 36)
Type <- rep(c("A", "B"),each=18)
Material <- rep (c("X","Y","Z","X","Y","Z"), each = 6)
Value <- c(0,0,0,2,0,0,27,50,30,103,104,223,147,
127,115,78,148,297,0,0,0,0,0,0,84,
59,56,53,64,86,90,75,95,111,215,191)
test.data <- data.frame(ID,Type,Material,Value)
test.data$ID <- factor(test.data$ID)
test.data$Type <- factor(test.data$Type)
test.data$Material <- factor(test.data$Material)
You could try:
m1 <- gamlss(Value ~ Material + Type, sigma.fo =~ Material + Type,
family=ZIP)
ZIP(mu, sigma) is a zero inflated Poisson distribution,
which is a mixture of zero with probability sigma,
and a Poisson distribution PO(mu) with probability (1-sigma).
You could then look at the residuals using
plot(m1) or
wp(m1)
The model may not be adequate and may need a
zero inflated negative binomial distribution, ZINBI(mu,sigma,nu)
which is a mixture of zero with probability nu,
and a negative binomial distribution NBI(mu,sigma) with probability (1-nu):
m2 <- gamlss(Value ~ Material + Type, sigma.fo =~ Material + Type,
nu.fo =~ Material + Type,family=ZIPBNI)
Alternatively an interaction term may be needed for mu, (and/or sigma or nu), e.g.
m3 <- gamlss(Value ~ Material*Type, sigma.fo =~ Material + Type,
family=ZIP)

Identifying lead/lags using multivariate regression analysis

I have three time-series variables (x,y,z) measured in 3 replicates. x and z are the independent variables. y is the dependent variable. t is the time variable. All the three variables follow diel variation, they increase during the day and decrease during the night. An example with a simulated dataset is below.
library(nlme)
library(tidyverse)
n <- 100
t <- seq(0,4*pi,,100)
a <- 3
b <- 2
c.unif <- runif(n)
amp <- 2
datalist = list()
for(i in 1:3){
y <- 3*sin(b*t)+rnorm(n)*2
x <- 2*sin(b*t+2.5)+rnorm(n)*2
z <- 4*sin(b*t-2.5)+rnorm(n)*2
data = as_tibble(cbind(y,x,z))%>%mutate(t = 1:100)%>% mutate(replicate = i)
datalist[[i]] <- data
}
df <- do.call(rbind,datalist)
ggplot(df)+
geom_line(aes(t,x),color='red')+geom_line(aes(t,y),color='blue')+
geom_line(aes(t,z),color = 'green')+facet_wrap(~replicate, nrow = 1)+theme_bw()
I can identify the lead/lag of y with respect to x and z individually. This can be done with ccf() function in r. For example
ccf(x,y)
ccf(z,y)
But I would like to do it in a multivariate regression approach. For example, nlme package and lme function indicates y and z are negatively affecting x
lme = lme(data = df, y~ x+ z , random=~1|replicate, correlation = corCAR1( form = ~ t| replicate))
It is impossible (in actual data) that x and z can negatively affect y.
I need the time-lead/lag and also I would like to get the standardized coefficient (t-value to compare the effect size), both from the same model.
Is there any multivariate model available that can give me the lead/lag and also give me regression coefficient?
We might be considering the " statistical significance of Cramer Rao estimation of a lower bound". In order to find Xbeta-Xinfinity, taking the expectation of Xbeta and an assumed mean neu; will yield a variable, neu^squared which can replace Xinfinity. Using the F test-likelihood ratio, the degrees of freedom is p2-p1 = n-p2.
Put it this way, the estimates are n=(-2neu^squared/neu^squared+n), phi t = y/Xbeta and Xbeta= (y-betazero)/a.
The point estimate is derived from y=aXbeta + b: , Xbeta. The time lead lag is phi t and the standardized coefficient is n. The regression generates the lower bound Xbeta, where t=beta.
Spectral analysis of the linear distribution indicates a point estimate beta zero = 0.27 which is a significant peak of
variability. Scaling Xbeta by Betazero would be an appropriate idea.

Fix variances to specific values in lme4/lmer

I am doing a simulation study for a mixed effect model (three levels; observations nested within subjects within schools):
f <- lmer(measurement ~ time + race + gender + s_ses +
fidelity + (1 + time|school/subject), mydata_long, REML=0)
The model allows the intercept and time slope to vary across subjects and schools. I am wondering how I can fix the variances to be specific values. I do know how to do that when there is only random intercept:
VarCorr(f)['subject:school']<-0.13
VarCorr(f)['school']<-0.20
However, when there is a random slope, these codes don't work since there are different components in the variance aspect (see the attached picture).
How can I fix the variances of subject: school (Intercept), subject:school time, school (Intercept), and school time to specific values in this case. Any suggestions?
A simulation example. The hardest part is getting the random-effects parameters correctly specified: the key things you need to know are (1) internally the random effects variance matrix is scaled by the residual variance; (2) for vector-valued random effects (like this random-slopes model), the variance-covariance matrix is specified in terms of its Cholesky factor: if we want covariance matrix V, there is a lower-triangular matrix such that C %*% t(C) == V. We compute C using chol(), then read off the elements of the lower triangle (including the diagonal) in column-major order (see helper functions below).
Set up experimental design (simplified from yours, but with the same random effects components):
mydata_long <- expand.grid(time=1:40,
school=factor(letters[1:25]),
subject=factor(LETTERS[1:25]))
Helper functions to convert from
a vector of standard deviations, one or more correlation parameters (in lower-triangular/column major order), and a residual standard deviation
to
a vector of "theta" parameters as used internally by lme4 (see description above)
... and back the other way (conv_chol)
conv_sc <- function(sdvec,cor,sigma) {
## construct symmetric matrix with cor in lower/upper triangles
cormat <- matrix(1,nrow=length(sdvec),ncol=length(sdvec))
cormat[lower.tri(cormat)] <- cor
cormat[upper.tri(cormat)] <- t(cormat)[upper.tri(cormat)]
## convert to covariance matrix and scale by 1/sigma^2
V <- outer(sdvec, sdvec)*cormat/sigma^2
## extract lower triangle in column-major order
return(t(chol(V))[lower.tri(V,diag=TRUE)])
}
conv_chol <- function(ch, s) {
m <- matrix(NA,2,2)
m[lower.tri(m,diag=TRUE)] <- ch
m[upper.tri(m)] <- 0
V <- m %*% t(m) * s^2
list(sd=sqrt(diag(V)), cor=cov2cor(V)[1,2])
}
If you want to start from covariance matrices rather than standard deviations and correlations you can modify the code to skip some steps (starting and ending with V).
Pick some values and convert (and back-convert, to check)
tt1 <- conv_sc(c(0.7, 1.2), 0.3, 0.5)
tt2 <- conv_sc(c(1.4, 0.2), -0.2, 0.5)
tt <- c(tt1, tt2)
conv_chol(tt1, s=0.5)
conv_chol(tt2, s=0.5)
Set up formula and simulate:
form <- m ~ time + (1 + time|school/subject)
set.seed(101)
mydata_long$m <- simulate(form[-2], ## [-2] drops the response
family=gaussian,
newdata=mydata_long,
newparams=list(theta=tt,
beta=c(1,1),
sigma=0.5))[[1]]
f <- lmer(form, data=mydata_long, REML=FALSE)
VarCorr(f)
The fitted results are close to what we requested above ...
Groups Name Std.Dev. Corr
subject:school (Intercept) 0.66427
time 1.16488 0.231
school (Intercept) 1.78312
time 0.22459 -0.156
Residual 0.49772
Now do the same thing 200 times, to explore the distribution of estimates:
simfun <- function() {
mydata_long$m <- simulate(form[-2],
family=gaussian,
newdata=mydata_long,
newparams=list(theta=tt,
beta=c(1,1),
sigma=0.5))[[1]]
f <- lmer(form, data=mydata_long, REML=FALSE)
return(as.data.frame(VarCorr(f))[,"sdcor"])
}
set.seed(101)
res <- plyr::raply(200,suppressMessages(simfun()),.progress="text")
Here plyr::raply() is used for convenience, you can do this however you like (for loop, lapply(), replicate(), purrr::map() ...)
par(las=1)
boxplot(res)
## add true values to the plot
points(1:7,c(0.7,1.2,0.3,1.4,0.2,-0.3,0.5),col=2,cex=3,lwd=3)

r loess: coefficients of global "parametric" terms

Is there a way how I can extract coefficients of globally fitted terms in local regression modeling?
Maybe I do misunderstand the role of globally fitted terms in the function loess, but what I would like to have is the following:
# baseline:
x <- sin(seq(0.2,0.6,length.out=100)*pi)
# noise:
x_noise <- rnorm(length(x),0,0.1)
# known structure:
x_1 <- sin(seq(5,20,length.out=100))
# signal:
y <- x + x_1*0.25 + x_noise
# fit loess model:
x_seq <- seq_along(x)
mod <- loess(y ~ x_seq + x_1,parametric="x_1")
The fit is done perfectly, however, how can I extract the estimated value of the globally fitted term x_1 (i.e. some value near 0.25 for the example above)?
Finally, I found a solution to my problem using the function gam from the package gam:
require(gam)
mod2 <- gam(y ~ lo(x_seq,span=0.75,degree=2) + x_1)
However, the fits from the two models are not exactly the same (which might be due to different control settings?)...

Calculating R^2 for a nonlinear least squares fit

Suppose I have x values, y values, and expected y values f (from some nonlinear best fit curve).
How can I compute R^2 in R? Note that this function is not a linear model, but a nonlinear least squares (nls) fit, so not an lm fit.
You just use the lm function to fit a linear model:
x = runif(100)
y = runif(100)
spam = summary(lm(x~y))
> spam$r.squared
[1] 0.0008532386
Note that the r squared is not defined for non-linear models, or at least very tricky, quote from R-help:
There is a good reason that an nls model fit in R does not provide
r-squared - r-squared doesn't make sense for a general nls model.
One way of thinking of r-squared is as a comparison of the residual
sum of squares for the fitted model to the residual sum of squares for
a trivial model that consists of a constant only. You cannot
guarantee that this is a comparison of nested models when dealing with
an nls model. If the models aren't nested this comparison is not
terribly meaningful.
So the answer is that you probably don't want to do this in the first
place.
If you want peer-reviewed evidence, see this article for example; it's not that you can't compute the R^2 value, it's just that it may not mean the same thing/have the same desirable properties as in the linear-model case.
Sounds like f are your predicted values. So the distance from them to the actual values devided by n * variance of y
so something like
1-sum((y-f)^2)/(length(y)*var(y))
should give you a quasi rsquared value, so long as your model is reasonably close to a linear model and n is pretty big.
As a direct answer to the question asked (rather than argue that R2/pseudo R2 aren't useful) the nagelkerke function in the rcompanion package will report various pseudo R2 values for nonlinear least square (nls) models as proposed by McFadden, Cox and Snell, and Nagelkerke, e.g.
require(nls)
data(BrendonSmall)
quadplat = function(x, a, b, clx) {
ifelse(x < clx, a + b * x + (-0.5*b/clx) * x * x,
a + b * clx + (-0.5*b/clx) * clx * clx)}
model = nls(Sodium ~ quadplat(Calories, a, b, clx),
data = BrendonSmall,
start = list(a = 519,
b = 0.359,
clx = 2304))
nullfunct = function(x, m){m}
null.model = nls(Sodium ~ nullfunct(Calories, m),
data = BrendonSmall,
start = list(m = 1346))
nagelkerke(model, null=null.model)
The soilphysics package also reports Efron's pseudo R2 and adjusted pseudo R2 value for nls models as 1 - RSS/TSS:
pred <- predict(model)
n <- length(pred)
res <- resid(model)
w <- weights(model)
if (is.null(w)) w <- rep(1, n)
rss <- sum(w * res ^ 2)
resp <- pred + res
center <- weighted.mean(resp, w)
r.df <- summary(model)$df[2]
int.df <- 1
tss <- sum(w * (resp - center)^2)
r.sq <- 1 - rss/tss
adj.r.sq <- 1 - (1 - r.sq) * (n - int.df) / r.df
out <- list(pseudo.R.squared = r.sq,
adj.R.squared = adj.r.sq)
which is also the pseudo R2 as calculated by the accuracy function in the rcompanion package. Basically, this R2 measures how much better your fit becomes compared to if you would just draw a flat horizontal line through them. This can make sense for nls models if your null model is one that allows for an intercept only model. Also for particular other nonlinear models it can make sense. E.g. for a scam model that uses stricly increasing splines (bs="mpi" in the spline term), the fitted model for the worst possible scenario (e.g. where your data was strictly decreasing) would be a flat line, and hence would result in an R2 of zero. Adjusted R2 then also penalize models with higher nrs of fitted parameters. Using the adjusted R2 value would already address a lot of the criticisms of the paper linked above, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892436/ (besides if one swears by using information criteria to do model selection the question becomes which one to use - AIC, BIC, EBIC, AICc, QIC, etc).
Just using
r.sq <- max(cor(y,yfitted),0)^2
adj.r.sq <- 1 - (1 - r.sq) * (n - int.df) / r.df
I think would also make sense if you have normal Gaussian errors - i.e. the correlation between the observed and fitted y (clipped at zero, so that a negative relationship would imply zero predictive power) squared, and then adjusted for the nr of fitted parameters in the adjusted version. If y and yfitted go in the same direction this would be the R2 and adjusted R2 value as reported for a regular linear model. To me this would make perfect sense at least, so I don't agree with outright rejecting the usefulness of pseudo R2 values for nls models as the answer above seems to imply.
For non-normal error structures (e.g. if you were using a GAM with non-normal errors) the McFadden pseudo R2 is defined analogously as
1-residual deviance/null deviance
See here and here for some useful discussion.
Another quasi-R-squared for non-linear models is to square the correlation between the actual y-values and the predicted y-values. For linear models this is the regular R-squared.
As an alternative to this problem I used at several times the following procedure:
compute a fit on data with the nls function
using the resulting model make predictions
Trace (plot...) the data against the values predicted by the model (if the model is good, points should be near the bissectrix).
Compute the R2 of the linear régression.
Best wishes to all. Patrick.
With the modelr package
modelr::rsquare(nls_model, data)
nls_model <- nls(mpg ~ a / wt + b, data = mtcars, start = list(a = 40, b = 4))
modelr::rsquare(nls_model, mtcars)
# 0.794
This gives essentially the same result as the longer way described by Tom from the rcompanion resource.
Longer way with nagelkerke function
nullfunct <- function(x, m){m}
null_model <- nls(mpg ~ nullfunct(wt, m),
data = mtcars,
start = list(m = mean(mtcars$mpg)))
nagelkerke(nls_model, null_model)[2]
# 0.794 or 0.796
Lastly, using predicted values
lm(mpg ~ predict(nls_model), data = mtcars) %>% broom::glance()
# 0.795
Like they say, it's only an approximation.

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