cv_vif_plot: Scatterplot of CV vs VIF

In rvif: Collinearity Detection using Redefined Variance Inflation Factor and Graphical Methods

Scatterplot of CV vs VIF

Description

This function provides a graphical representation of a scatter plot showing the Coefficient of Variation (CV) and the Variance Inflation Factor (VIF) for the independent variables (excluding the intercept) of a multiple linear regression model.

Usage

cv_vif_plot(x, limit = 40)

Arguments

x	This is the output of the function cv_vif.
limit	A real number that indicates the lower limit of the vertical axis. The default value is limit=40.

Details

The distinction between essential and non-essential multicollinearity and the limitations of each measure (CV and VIF) for detecting the different kinds of multicollinearity, can be very useful for identifying whether there is a troubling degree of multicollinearity, and determining the kind of multicollinearity present and the variables causing it.

For this purpose, it is important to include the lines corresponding to the established thresholds for each measure in the representation of the scatter plot of the CV and VIF: a dashed vertical line for 0.1002506 (CV) and a dotted horizontal line for 10 (VIF). These lines determine four regions (see Example 1), which can be interpreted as follows: A: existence of troubling non-essential and non-troubling essential multicollinearity; B: existence of troubling essential and non-essential multicollinearity; C: existence of non-troubling non-essential and troubling essential multicollinearity; D: non-troubling degree of existing multicollinearity (essential and non-essential).

Author(s)

R. Salmerón ([e-mail]) and C.B. García ([e-mail]).

References

Salmerón, R., García, C.B. and García, J. (2018). Variance inflation factor and condition number in multiple linear regression. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 88:2365-2384, doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00949655.2018.1463376.

Salmerón, R., Rodríguez, A. and García, C.B. (2020). Diagnosis and quantification of the non-essential collinearity. Computational Statistics, 35(2), 647-666, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00180-019-00922-x.

Salmerón, R., García, C.B., Rodríguez, A. and García, C. (2022). Limitations in detecting multicollinearity due to scaling issues in the mcvis package. R Journal, 14(4), 264-279, doi: https://doi.org/10.32614/RJ-2023-010.

See Also

cv_vif

Examples

### Example 1

	plot(-2:20, -2:20, type = "n", xlab="Coefficient of Variation", 
	                              ylab="Variance Inflation Factor")
	abline(h=10, col="red", lwd=3, lty=2)
	abline(h=0, col="black", lwd=1)
	abline(v=0.1002506, col="red", lwd=3, lty=3)
	#abline(v=0, col="red", lwd=1)
	text(-1.25, 2, "A", pos=3, col="blue")
	text(-1.25, 12, "B", pos=3, col="blue")
	text(10, 12, "C", pos=3, col="blue")
	text(10, 2, "D", pos=3, col="blue")

### Example 2

	library(multiColl)
	set.seed(2025)
	obs = 100
	cte = rep(1, obs)
	x2 = rnorm(obs, 5, 0.01)
	x3 = rnorm(obs, 5, 10)
	x4 = x3 + rnorm(obs, 5, 1)
	x5 = rnorm(obs, -1, 30)
	x = cbind(cte, x2, x3, x4, x5)
	cv_vif_plot(cv_vif(x))
	cv_vif_plot(cv_vif(x), limit=0) # notes the effect of the 'limit' argument

### Example 3
### Graphical representation is not possible
	
	head(SLM2, n=5)
	x = SLM2[,2:3]
	cv_vif_plot(cv_vif(x))
	
### Example 4
### Computationally singular system
	
	head(soil, n=5)
	x = soil[,-16]
	cv_vif_plot(cv_vif(x))

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