consensus_evaluate: Evaluate, trim, and reweigh algorithms

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Evaluate, trim, and reweigh algorithms

Description

Evaluates algorithms on internal/external validation indices. Poor performing algorithms can be trimmed from the ensemble. The remaining algorithms can be given weights before use in consensus functions.

Usage

consensus_evaluate(
  data,
  ...,
  cons.cl = NULL,
  ref.cl = NULL,
  k.method = NULL,
  plot = FALSE,
  trim = FALSE,
  reweigh = FALSE,
  n = 5,
  lower = 0,
  upper = 1
)

Arguments

data	data matrix with rows as samples and columns as variables
...	any number of objects outputted from consensus_cluster()
cons.cl	matrix of cluster assignments from consensus functions such as kmodes and majority_voting
ref.cl	reference class
k.method	determines the method to choose k when no reference class is given. When ref.cl is not NULL, k is the number of distinct classes of ref.cl. Otherwise the input from k.method chooses k. The default is to use the PAC to choose the best k(s). Specifying an integer as a user-desired k will override the best k chosen by PAC. Finally, specifying "all" will produce consensus results for all k. The "all" method is implicitly performed when there is only one k used.
plot	logical; if TRUE, graph_all is called
trim	logical; if TRUE, algorithms that score low on internal indices will be trimmed out
reweigh	logical; if TRUE, after trimming out poor performing algorithms, each algorithm is reweighed depending on its internal indices.
n	an integer specifying the top n algorithms to keep after trimming off the poor performing ones using Rank Aggregation. If the total number of algorithms is less than n no trimming is done.
lower	the lower bound that determines what is ambiguous
upper	the upper bound that determines what is ambiguous

Details

This function always returns internal indices. If ref.cl is not NULL, external indices are additionally shown. Relevant graphical displays are also outputted. Algorithms are ranked across internal indices using Rank Aggregation. Only the top n algorithms are kept, the rest are trimmed.

Value

consensus_evaluate returns a list with the following elements

• k: if ref.cl is not NULL, this is the number of distinct classes in the reference; otherwise the chosen k is determined by the one giving the largest mean PAC across algorithms

• pac: a data frame showing the PAC for each combination of algorithm and cluster size

• ii: a list of data frames for all k showing internal evaluation indices

• ei: a data frame showing external evaluation indices for k

• trim.obj: A list with 4 elements

  • alg.keep: algorithms kept

  • alg.remove: algorithms removed

  • rank.matrix: a matrix of ranked algorithms for every internal evaluation index

  • top.list: final order of ranked algorithms

  • E.new: A new version of a consensus_cluster data object

Examples

# Consensus clustering for multiple algorithms
set.seed(911)
x <- matrix(rnorm(500), ncol = 10)
CC <- consensus_cluster(x, nk = 3:4, reps = 10, algorithms = c("ap", "km"),
progress = FALSE)

# Evaluate algorithms on internal/external indices and trim algorithms:
# remove those ranking low on internal indices
set.seed(1)
ref.cl <- sample(1:4, 50, replace = TRUE)
z <- consensus_evaluate(x, CC, ref.cl = ref.cl, n = 1, trim = TRUE)
str(z, max.level = 2)

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