BIC.dnc: Compute BIC as in Handcock et al. 2007
In dnc: Dynamic Network Clustering

Description Usage Arguments Details Value References Examples

View source: R/DNCRPackageRCode.R

The following uses a BIC estimate of π(Y,\hat{X}|M) to perform model selection. Note that this usage is not the typical BIC encountered in simpler contexts.

1 2	## S3 method for class 'dnc' BIC(object, ...)

`object`	A `dnc` object, a result of running `dnc(...)`
`...`	optional additional arguments. None are used.

Rather than estimating the integrated likelihood π(Y|G), this instead incorporates the MAP estimates of the latent positions and corresponds to π(Y,\hat{X}|M). The BIC value returned is the following sum:

-2 log(π(Y|\hat{X},\hat{θ_1})) + dim(θ_1)log(∑ y_{ijt}) -2 log(π(\hat{X}|\hat{θ_2})) + dim(θ_2) \log(nT)

. See Sewell and Chen (2016) for more details.

A scalar. Lower values are better.

Handcock, M. S., A.E. Raftery, and J. M. Tantrum (2007). Model-based clustering for social networks. J.R. Statist. Soc. A, 170, p. 301-354.

## Not run: 
dncObjs = list()
BICvals = numeric(9)
for(i in 2:10){
  print(i)
  dncObjs[[i]] <- dnc(friendship,M=i,p=3,method="VB",
                      controls=list(nDraws=500,burnin=100,
                                    MaxItStg2=50,epsilonStg2=1e-15))
  BICvals[i-1] <- BIC(dncObjs[[i]])
}
plot(BICvals~c(2:10),type="b",pch=16,
     xlab="Number of communities",ylab="BIC value")
( MBest = which.min(BICvals)+1 )
abline(v=MBest,lty=2,col="blue")

## End(Not run)