tests/testthat/test-check_collinearity.R

# https://github.com/easystats/performance/pull/547
test_that("check_collinearity, correct order in print", {
  data(mtcars)
  m <- lm(mpg ~ wt + cyl + gear + disp, data = mtcars)
  out <- capture.output(print(check_collinearity(m, verbose = FALSE)))
  expect_identical(
    out,
    c(
      "# Check for Multicollinearity",
      "",
      "Low Correlation",
      "",
      " Term  VIF    VIF 95% CI adj. VIF Tolerance Tolerance 95% CI",
      " gear 1.53 [1.19,  2.51]     1.24      0.65     [0.40, 0.84]",
      "",
      "Moderate Correlation",
      "",
      " Term  VIF    VIF 95% CI adj. VIF Tolerance Tolerance 95% CI",
      "   wt 5.05 [3.21,  8.41]     2.25      0.20     [0.12, 0.31]",
      "  cyl 5.41 [3.42,  9.04]     2.33      0.18     [0.11, 0.29]",
      " disp 9.97 [6.08, 16.85]     3.16      0.10     [0.06, 0.16]"
    )
  )
})


test_that("check_collinearity, interaction", {
  m <- lm(mpg ~ wt * cyl, data = mtcars)
  expect_message(check_collinearity(m), regex = "Model has interaction terms")
})


test_that("check_collinearity", {
  skip_if_not_installed("glmmTMB")
  skip_if_not(getRversion() >= "4.0.0")

  data(Salamanders, package = "glmmTMB")

  m1 <- glmmTMB::glmmTMB(
    count ~ spp + mined + (1 | site),
    ziformula = ~spp,
    Salamanders,
    family = poisson()
  )
  expect_equal(
    suppressWarnings(
      check_collinearity(m1, component = "conditional", verbose = FALSE)$VIF
    ),
    c(1.00037354840318, 1.00037354840318),
    tolerance = 1e-3
  )
  expect_equal(
    suppressWarnings(check_collinearity(m1, component = "all", verbose = FALSE)$VIF),
    c(1.00037354840318, 1.00037354840318),
    tolerance = 1e-3
  )
  expect_null(check_collinearity(m1, verbose = FALSE, component = "zero_inflated"))
})


test_that("check_collinearity", {
  skip_if_not_installed("glmmTMB")
  skip_if_not(getRversion() >= "4.0.0")

  data(Salamanders, package = "glmmTMB")

  m2 <- glmmTMB::glmmTMB(
    count ~ spp + mined + cover + (1 | site),
    ziformula = ~ spp + mined + cover,
    family = glmmTMB::nbinom2,
    data = Salamanders
  )

  expect_equal(
    suppressWarnings(
      check_collinearity(m2, component = "conditional", verbose = FALSE)$VIF
    ),
    c(1.09015, 1.2343, 1.17832),
    tolerance = 1e-3
  )
  expect_equal(
    suppressWarnings(
      check_collinearity(m2, component = "conditional", verbose = FALSE)$VIF_CI_low
    ),
    c(1.03392, 1.14674, 1.10105),
    tolerance = 1e-3
  )
  expect_equal(
    suppressWarnings(check_collinearity(m2, component = "all", verbose = FALSE)$VIF),
    c(1.09015, 1.2343, 1.17832, 1.26914, 1, 1.26914),
    tolerance = 1e-3
  )
  expect_equal(
    suppressWarnings(
      check_collinearity(m2, component = "all", verbose = FALSE)$VIF_CI_low
    ),
    c(1.03392, 1.14674, 1.10105, 1.17565, 1, 1.17565),
    tolerance = 1e-3
  )
  expect_equal(
    suppressWarnings(
      check_collinearity(m2, component = "zero_inflated", verbose = FALSE)$VIF
    ),
    c(1.26914, 1, 1.26914),
    tolerance = 1e-3
  )
  expect_equal(
    suppressWarnings(
      check_collinearity(
        m2,
        component = "zero_inflated",
        verbose = FALSE
      )$Tolerance_CI_high
    ),
    c(0.85059, 1, 0.85059),
    tolerance = 1e-3
  )

  suppressWarnings(coll <- check_collinearity(m2, component = "all", verbose = FALSE)) # nolint
  expect_true(all(coll$Tolerance < coll$Tolerance_CI_high))
  expect_true(all(coll$VIF > coll$VIF_CI_low))

  expect_identical(
    attributes(coll)$data$Component,
    c(
      "conditional",
      "conditional",
      "conditional",
      "zero inflated",
      "zero inflated",
      "zero inflated"
    )
  )
  expect_identical(
    colnames(attributes(coll)$CI),
    c("VIF_CI_low", "VIF_CI_high", "Tolerance_CI_low", "Tolerance_CI_high", "Component")
  )
})

test_that("check_collinearity | afex", {
  skip_on_cran()
  skip_if_not_installed("afex", minimum_version = "1.0.0")

  data(obk.long, package = "afex")

  obk.long$treatment <- as.character(obk.long$treatment)
  suppressWarnings(suppressMessages({
    aM <- afex::aov_car(
      value ~ treatment * gender + Error(id / (phase * hour)),
      data = obk.long
    )

    aW <- afex::aov_car(value ~ Error(id / (phase * hour)), data = obk.long)

    aB <- afex::aov_car(value ~ treatment * gender + Error(id), data = obk.long)
  }))

  expect_message(ccoM <- check_collinearity(aM)) # nolint
  expect_warning(expect_message(ccoW <- check_collinearity(aW))) # nolint
  expect_message(ccoB <- check_collinearity(aB), regexp = NA) # nolint

  expect_identical(nrow(ccoM), 15L)
  expect_identical(nrow(ccoW), 3L)
  expect_identical(nrow(ccoB), 3L)

  suppressWarnings(suppressMessages({
    aM <- afex::aov_car(
      value ~ treatment * gender + Error(id / (phase * hour)),
      include_aov = TRUE,
      data = obk.long
    )

    aW <- afex::aov_car(
      value ~ Error(id / (phase * hour)),
      include_aov = TRUE,
      data = obk.long
    )

    aB <- afex::aov_car(
      value ~ treatment * gender + Error(id),
      include_aov = TRUE,
      data = obk.long
    )
  }))

  expect_message(ccoM <- check_collinearity(aM)) # nolint
  expect_warning(expect_message(ccoW <- check_collinearity(aW))) # nolint
  expect_message(ccoB <- check_collinearity(aB), regexp = NA) # nolint

  expect_identical(nrow(ccoM), 15L)
  expect_identical(nrow(ccoW), 3L)
  expect_identical(nrow(ccoB), 3L)
})

test_that("check_collinearity, ci = NULL", {
  # 518
  data(npk)
  m <- lm(yield ~ N + P + K, npk)
  out <- check_collinearity(m, ci = NULL)

  # fmt: skip
  expect_identical(
    colnames(out),
    c(
      "Term", "VIF", "VIF_CI_low", "VIF_CI_high", "SE_factor", "Tolerance",
      "Tolerance_CI_low", "Tolerance_CI_high"
    )
  )
  expect_identical(
    capture.output(print(out)),
    c(
      "# Check for Multicollinearity",
      "",
      "Low Correlation",
      "",
      " Term VIF adj. VIF Tolerance",
      "    N   1        1         1",
      "    P   1        1         1",
      "    K   1        1         1"
    )
  )
})

test_that("check_collinearity, ci are NA", {
  skip_if_not_installed("fixest")
  data(mtcars)
  i <- fixest::i
  m_vif <- fixest::feols(mpg ~ disp + hp + wt + i(cyl) | carb, data = mtcars)
  out <- suppressWarnings(check_collinearity(m_vif))
  # fmt: skip
  expect_identical(
    colnames(out),
    c(
      "Term", "VIF", "VIF_CI_low", "VIF_CI_high", "SE_factor", "Tolerance",
      "Tolerance_CI_low", "Tolerance_CI_high"
    )
  )
})

test_that("check_collinearity, hurdle/zi models w/o zi-formula", {
  skip_if_not_installed("pscl")
  data("bioChemists", package = "pscl")
  m <- pscl::hurdle(
    art ~ fem + mar,
    data = bioChemists,
    dist = "poisson",
    zero.dist = "binomial",
    link = "logit"
  )
  out <- check_collinearity(m)
  # fmt: skip
  expect_named(
    out,
    c(
      "Term", "VIF", "VIF_CI_low", "VIF_CI_high", "SE_factor", "Tolerance",
      "Tolerance_CI_low", "Tolerance_CI_high", "Component"
    )
  )
  expect_equal(out$VIF, c(1.05772, 1.05772, 1.06587, 1.06587), tolerance = 1e-4)
  expect_snapshot(print(out))
})

test_that("check_collinearity, invalid data", {
  dd <- data.frame(y = as.difftime(0:5, units = "days"))
  m1 <- lm(y ~ 1, data = dd)
  expect_message(check_collinearity(m1), "Could not extract the variance-covariance")
})

test_that("check_collinearity, glmmTMB hurdle w/o zi", {
  skip_if_not_installed("glmmTMB")
  data(Salamanders, package = "glmmTMB")
  mod_trunc_error <- glmmTMB::glmmTMB(
    count ~ spp + mined + (1 | site),
    data = Salamanders[Salamanders$count > 0, , drop = FALSE],
    family = glmmTMB::truncated_nbinom2(),
    ziformula = ~0,
    dispformula = ~1
  )
  out <- check_collinearity(mod_trunc_error)
  expect_equal(out$VIF, c(1.03414, 1.03414), tolerance = 1e-3)
})

test_that("check_collinearity, validate adjusted vif against car", {
  skip_if_not_installed("car")
  data(mtcars)
  mod <- lm(mpg ~ cyl + hp + am, data = mtcars)
  out1 <- car::vif(mod)
  out2 <- check_collinearity(mod)
  expect_equal(out1, out2$VIF, tolerance = 1e-3, ignore_attr = TRUE)

  mod <- lm(mpg ~ as.factor(cyl) + hp + gear, data = mtcars)
  out1 <- car::vif(mod)
  out2 <- check_collinearity(mod)
  expect_equal(out1[, 1], out2$VIF, tolerance = 1e-3, ignore_attr = TRUE)
  expect_equal(out1[, 3], out2$SE_factor, tolerance = 1e-3, ignore_attr = TRUE)

  mtcars$gear <- factor(mtcars$gear)
  mod <- lm(mpg ~ as.factor(cyl) + hp + gear, data = mtcars)
  out1 <- car::vif(mod)
  out2 <- check_collinearity(mod)
  expect_equal(out1[, 1], out2$VIF, tolerance = 1e-3, ignore_attr = TRUE)
  expect_equal(out1[, 3], out2$SE_factor, tolerance = 1e-3, ignore_attr = TRUE)
})

test_that("check_collinearity, ordinal clmm models", {
  skip_if_not_installed("ordinal")
  set.seed(999)
  n <- 500
  x_continuous <- rnorm(n, mean = 0, sd = 1)
  x_binary <- sample(c(-0.5, 0.5), size = n, replace = TRUE, prob = c(0.85, 0.15))
  subject_id <- factor(rep(1:50, each = 10))
  random_intercepts <- rnorm(50, 0, 1)
  latent_y <- 2 *
    x_continuous +
    3 * x_binary +
    random_intercepts[as.numeric(subject_id)] +
    rlogis(n)
  y_ordinal <- cut(
    latent_y,
    breaks = 15,
    ordered_result = TRUE
  )
  dat <- data.frame(y_ordinal, x_continuous, x_binary, subject_id)
  mod_clmm <- ordinal::clmm(
    y_ordinal ~ x_continuous + x_binary + (1 | subject_id),
    data = dat
  )
  out <- check_collinearity(mod_clmm)
  expect_s3_class(out, "check_collinearity")
  expect_identical(out$Term, c("x_continuous", "x_binary"))
  expect_equal(out$VIF, c(1.12, 1.12), tolerance = 0.05)
})

test_that("check_collinearity, ordinal clm models", {
  skip_if_not_installed("ordinal")
  set.seed(999)
  n <- 500
  x_continuous <- rnorm(n, mean = 0, sd = 1)
  x_binary <- sample(c(-0.5, 0.5), size = n, replace = TRUE, prob = c(0.85, 0.15))
  latent_y <- 2 * x_continuous + 3 * x_binary + rlogis(n)
  y_ordinal <- cut(
    latent_y,
    breaks = 15,
    ordered_result = TRUE
  )
  dat <- data.frame(y_ordinal, x_continuous, x_binary)
  mod_clm <- ordinal::clm(
    y_ordinal ~ x_continuous + x_binary,
    data = dat
  )
  out <- check_collinearity(mod_clm)
  expect_s3_class(out, "check_collinearity")
  expect_identical(out$Term, c("x_continuous", "x_binary"))
  expect_equal(out$VIF, c(1.11, 1.11), tolerance = 0.05)
})

test_that("check_collinearity, ordinal clmm models with offset", {
  skip_if_not_installed("ordinal")
  set.seed(999)
  n <- 500
  x_continuous <- rnorm(n, mean = 0, sd = 1)
  x_binary <- sample(c(-0.5, 0.5), size = n, replace = TRUE, prob = c(0.85, 0.15))
  x_offset <- rnorm(n, mean = 0, sd = 0.5)
  subject_id <- factor(rep(1:50, each = 10))
  random_intercepts <- rnorm(50, 0, 1)

  latent_y <- 2 *
    x_continuous +
    3 * x_binary +
    random_intercepts[as.numeric(subject_id)] +
    x_offset +
    rlogis(n)
  y_ordinal <- cut(latent_y, breaks = 15, ordered_result = TRUE)
  dat <- data.frame(y_ordinal, x_continuous, x_binary, x_offset, subject_id)
  mod_clmm_offset <- ordinal::clmm(
    y_ordinal ~ x_continuous + x_binary + offset(x_offset) + (1 | subject_id),
    data = dat
  )
  out <- check_collinearity(mod_clmm_offset)
  expect_s3_class(out, "check_collinearity")
  expect_identical(out$Term, c("x_continuous", "x_binary"))
  expect_equal(out$VIF, c(1.12, 1.12), tolerance = 0.05)
})

test_that("check_collinearity, ordinal clm models with offset", {
  skip_if_not_installed("ordinal")
  set.seed(999)
  n <- 500
  x_continuous <- rnorm(n, mean = 0, sd = 1)
  x_binary <- sample(c(-0.5, 0.5), size = n, replace = TRUE, prob = c(0.85, 0.15))
  x_offset <- rnorm(n, mean = 0, sd = 0.5)
  latent_y <- 2 * x_continuous + 3 * x_binary + x_offset + rlogis(n)
  y_ordinal <- cut(latent_y, breaks = 15, ordered_result = TRUE)
  dat <- data.frame(y_ordinal, x_continuous, x_binary, x_offset)
  mod_clm_offset <- ordinal::clm(
    y_ordinal ~ x_continuous + x_binary + offset(x_offset),
    data = dat
  )
  out <- check_collinearity(mod_clm_offset)
  expect_s3_class(out, "check_collinearity")
  expect_identical(out$Term, c("x_continuous", "x_binary"))
  expect_equal(out$VIF, c(1.11, 1.11), tolerance = 0.05)
})

test_that("check_collinearity, standard lm models with offset", {
  # Standard linear model with an offset
  m_lm_offset <- lm(mpg ~ wt + cyl + offset(disp), data = mtcars)
  out <- check_collinearity(m_lm_offset)
  expect_s3_class(out, "check_collinearity")
  # The offset should not be evaluated for collinearity
  expect_identical(out$Term, c("wt", "cyl"))
  expect_false("disp" %in% out$Term)
})


test_that("check_collinearity, rank deficient.", {
  data(mtcars)
  mtcars$Z <- mtcars$wt + mtcars$cyl

  m1 <- lm(mpg ~ wt + cyl + Z, data = mtcars)
  m2 <- lm(mpg ~ wt + cyl, data = mtcars)
  expect_warning(
    {
      out1 <- check_collinearity(m1)
    },
    "Model matrix is rank deficient"
  )
  expect_silent({
    out2 <- check_collinearity(m2)
  })
  expect_identical(out1$VIF, out2$VIF)
})

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