weibullQlink: Weibull Quantile regression: Link function for the quantiles...

In VGAMextra: Additions and Extensions of the 'VGAM' Package

Weibull Quantile regression: Link function for the quantiles of the Weibull distribution.

Description

Computes the weibullQlink transformation, its inverse and the first two derivatives.

Usage

       weibullQlink(theta, percentile = stop("Enter percentiles."),
                    shape = NULL, wrt.param = NULL,
                    bvalue = NULL, inverse = FALSE,
                    deriv = 0, short = TRUE, tag = FALSE)
                       

Arguments

theta	Numeric or character. Same as uninormalQlink
percentile	Same as uninormalQlink. Denoted below as perc.
shape	Numeric, positive. The shape parameter, required.
wrt.param	Same as in uninormalQlink
bvalue, inverse, deriv, short, tag	See Links.

Details

The ordinary scale–shape Weibull quantiles are directly modelled by this link, aka weibullQlink transformation. It can only be used within weibullRff as the first linear predictor, \eta_1, and is defined as

\tt{weibullQlink}(\beta; \alpha) = \eta_1(\beta; \alpha) = \log \{\beta \cdot [(-\log(1 - perc))^{(1/\alpha)}]\},

for given \alpha ('shape' parameter) where \beta > 0 is the scale parameter. weibullQlink is expressly a function of \beta, i.e. \theta, therefore \alpha (shape) must be entered at every call.

Numerical values of \alpha or \beta out of range may result in Inf, -Inf, NA or NaN.

Value

For deriv = 0, the weibullQlink transformation of theta, i.e. \beta, when inverse = FALSE. If inverse = TRUE, then \theta becomes \eta, and the inverse, exp[theta - (1 / \alpha) log(-log(1 - perc))], for given \alpha, is returned.

When deriv = 1 theta becomes \theta = (\beta, \alpha)= (\theta_1, \theta_2), and \eta = (\eta_1, \eta_2) with \eta_2 = \log~\alpha, and the argument wrt.param must be considered:

A) If inverse = FALSE, then d eta1 / d \beta is returned when wrt.param = 1, and d eta1 / d \alpha if wrt.param = 2.

B) For inverse = TRUE, this link returns d \beta / d eta1 and d \alpha / d eta1 conformably arranged in a matrix, if wrt.param = 1, as a function of \theta_i, i = 1, 2. When wrt.param = 2, a matrix with columns d\beta / d eta2 and d\alpha / d eta2 is returned.

For deriv = 2, the second derivatives in terms of theta are similarly returned.

Note

See weibullMlink.

Author(s)

V. Miranda and Thomas W. Yee.

References

Miranda & Yee (2021) Two–Parameter Link Functions, With Application to Negative Binomial, Weibull and Quantile Regression. In preparation.

See Also

weibullRff, Q.reg, weibullR, weibmeanlink, Links.

Examples

    eta <- seq(-3, 3, by = 0.1) # this is eta = log(Weibull-quantiles).
    shape  <- exp(1)    # 'shape' argument.
    percentile <- c(25, 50, 75, 95)  # some percentiles of interest.
 
 ## E1. Get 'scale' values. Gives a warning (not of the same length) !
   theta <- weibullQlink(theta = eta, percentile = percentile,
                         shape = shape, inverse = TRUE)  # Scale
   
 ## Not run: 
 ## E2. Plot theta vs. eta, 'shape' fixed, for different percentiles.
plot(theta[, 1], eta, type = "l", lwd = 3,
     ylim = c(-4, 4), 
     main = paste0("weibullQlink(theta; shape = ", round(shape, 3), ")"), 
     xlab = "Theta (scale)", ylab = "weibullQlink")
abline(h = -3:3, v = 0, col = "gray", lty = "dashed")
lines(theta[, 2], eta, lwd = 3, col = "blue")
lines(theta[, 3], eta, lwd = 3, col = "orange")
lines(theta[, 4], eta, lwd = 3, col = "red")
legend("bottomright", c("25th Perc", "50th Perc", "75th Perc", "95th Perc"),
      col = c("black", "blue", "orange", "red"),
      lwd = rep(3, 4))
 
## End(Not run)
 
 ## E3. weibullQlink() and its inverse ##
    etabis  <- weibullQlink(theta = theta, percentile = percentile,
                            shape = shape, inverse = FALSE)
    summary(eta - etabis)     # Should be 0 for each colum (percentile)

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