add_loo.brma: Add LOO-PSIS to brma Objects

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Add LOO-PSIS to brma Objects

Description

Compute approximate leave-one-out cross-validation (LOO-CV) using Pareto smoothed importance sampling (PSIS) for brma model objects and store the result in the object.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'brma'
add_loo(object, unit = "estimate", r_eff = NULL, parallel = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

object	a brma model object.
unit	output/deletion unit. "estimate" computes one contribution per effect-size estimate. "cluster" computes one contribution per cluster and is available only for multilevel models.
r_eff	optional vector of relative effective sample sizes. If not provided, it is computed from the log-likelihood values.
parallel	Logical. If TRUE, loo::relative_eff() and loo::loo() use RoBMA.get_option("max_cores"). Log-likelihood construction is unchanged. If FALSE, those computations use one core.
...	additional arguments (currently ignored).

Details

With unit = "estimate", LOO-CV is computed with one contribution per effect-size estimate. For binomial and Poisson models, each pair of counts (ai/ci or x1i/x2i) that defines a single effect size estimate is treated as one contribution.

With unit = "cluster", LOO-CV is computed with one joint contribution per cluster. For unweighted normal models without selection this uses the analytic cluster block covariance. Selection, data-weighted normal, and GLMM models integrate the held-out cluster effect with Gauss-Hermite quadrature.

For selection models, the LOO evaluates the weighted likelihood, conditioning on the posterior omega samples.

The PSIS object is essential for model comparison via loo_compare and is automatically saved in the loo result. RoBMA stores target metadata so comparisons can reject mismatched data, unit, or conditioning-depth targets.

Important for model comparison: When comparing models via loo_compare, the selection is based on expected out-of-sample predictive performance. This evaluates how well models predict new observations, not how well they fit the observed data.

Value

The brma object with the LOO result stored in object[["loo"]][[unit]].

References

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vehtari2017practicalRoBMA \insertCitevehtari2024paretoRoBMA

See Also

loo.brma, loo, loo_compare, pareto_k_ids

Examples

## Not run: 
if (requireNamespace("metadat", quietly = TRUE)) {
  data(dat.lehmann2018, package = "metadat")
  fit <- bPET(yi = yi, vi = vi, data = dat.lehmann2018, measure = "SMD")

  fit <- add_loo(fit)
  loo_fit <- loo(fit)
  print(loo_fit)
  plot(loo_fit)
}

## End(Not run)

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