stsm-methods-get: Getter Methods for Class 'stsm'

Description Usage Arguments Details Value See Also Examples

Description

Get access to the information stored in the slots cpar, nopars and pars in objects of class stsm.

Usage

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## S4 method for signature 'stsm'
get.cpar(x, rescale = FALSE)
## S4 method for signature 'stsm'
get.nopars(x, rescale = FALSE)
## S4 method for signature 'stsm'
get.pars(x, rescale = FALSE)

Arguments

x

an object of class stsm.

rescale

logical. If TRUE, relative variance parameters are rescaled into absolute variances. Ignored if x@cpar is null.

Details

Transformation of the parameters of the model. The method transPars allows parameterizing the model in terms of an auxiliar vector of parameters. The output of get.pars is returned in terms of the actual parameters of the model, i.e., the variances and the autoregressive coefficients if they are part of the model. With the standard parameterization, x@transPars = NULL, get.pars(x) returns the output stored in x@pars. When the model is parameterized in terms of an auxiliar set of parameters θ, get.pars return the variance parameters instead of the values of θ that are stored in x@pars. For example, with x@transPars = "square" (where the variances are θ^2), ger.pars returns θ^2 while x@pars contains the vector θ.

Absolute and relative variances. The model can be defined in terms of relative variances. In this case, the variance that acts as a scaling parameter is stored in the slot cpar. Otherwise, cpar is null and ignored. Typically, the scaling parameter will be chosen to be the variance parameter that is concentrated out of the likelihood function. If rescale = TRUE, the relative variance parameters are rescaled into absolute variance parameters (i.e., they are multiplied by x@cpar) and then returned by these methods. If rescale = FALSE, relative variance parameters are returned, that is, the variances divided by the scaling parameter cpar. Since the scaling parameter is one of the variances, the relative variance stored in cpar is 1 (the parameter divided by itself).

Transformation of parameters in a model defined in terms of relative variances. When a model is defined so that the parameters are the relative variances (cpar is not null) and a parameterization transPars is also specified, then the transformation of parameters is applied to the relative variances, not to the absolute variances. The relative variances are first transformed and afterwards they are rescaled back to absolute variances if requested by setting rescale = TRUE. The transformation transPars is applied to the parameters defined in pars; cpar is assumed to be chosen following other rationale; usually, it is the value that maximizes the likelihood since one of the variance parameters can be concentrated out of the likelihood function.

Note. When cpar is not null, it is more convenient to store in the slots pars and nopars the values of the relative variances, while the slot cpar stores the value of the scaling parameter rather than the relative variance (which will be 1). If the relative values were stored, then the scaling parameter would need to be recomputed each time the value is requested by get.cpar. Assuming that cpar is the parameter that is concentrated out of the likelihood function, the expression that maximizes the likelihood should be evaluated whenever the value is requested to be printed or to do any other operation. To avoid this, the scaling value is directly stored. This approach makes also sense with the way the method set.cpar works.

Note for users. For those users that are not familiar with the design and internal structure of the stsm.class package, it is safer to use the get and set methods rather than retrieving or modifying the contents of the slots through the @ and @<- operators.

Value

get.cpar

named numeric of length one.

get.nopars

named numeric vector.

get.pars

named numeric vector.

See Also

stsm-class.

Examples

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# sample models with arbitrary parameter values

# model in standard parameterization
# internal parameter values are the same as the model parameter
m <- stsm.model(model = "llm+seas", y = JohnsonJohnson, 
  pars = c("var1" = 2, "var2" = 15, "var3" = 30))
m@pars
get.pars(m)

# model parameterized, the variances are the square
# of an auxiliar vector of parameters
m <- stsm.model(model = "llm+seas", y = JohnsonJohnson, 
  pars = c("var1" = 2, "var2" = 15, "var3" = 30), transPars = "square")
# auxiliar vector of parameters
m@pars
# parameters of the model, variances
get.pars(m)

# model rescaled, variances are relative to 'var1'
m <- stsm.model(model = "llm+seas", y = JohnsonJohnson, 
  pars = c("var2" = 15, "var3" = 30), cpar = c("var1" = 2))
# internal values
m@pars
m@cpar
# relative variances
get.pars(m)
get.cpar(m)
# absolute variances
get.pars(m, rescale = TRUE)
get.cpar(m, rescale = TRUE)

# model defined in terms of relative variances 
# and with the parameterization \code{transPars="square};
# the transformation is applied to the relative variances,
# the relative variances are first transformed and afterwards 
# they are rescaled back to absolute variances if requested
m <- stsm.model(model = "llm+seas", y = JohnsonJohnson, 
  pars = c("var2" = 3, "var3" = 6), cpar = c("var1" = 2),
  transPars = "square")
c(get.cpar(m, rescale = FALSE), get.pars(m, rescale = FALSE))
c(get.cpar(m, rescale = TRUE), get.pars(m, rescale = TRUE))

# when 'cpar' is defined, 'nopars' is also interpreted as a relative variance
# and therefore it is rescaled if absolute variances are requested
m <- stsm.model(model = "llm+seas", y = JohnsonJohnson, 
  pars = c("var2" = 3), cpar = c("var1" = 2), nopars = c("var3" = 6),
  transPars = NULL)
v <- c(get.cpar(m, rescale = FALSE), get.pars(m, rescale = FALSE), get.nopars(m, rescale = FALSE))
v[c("var1", "var2", "var3")]
v <- c(get.cpar(m, rescale = TRUE), get.pars(m, rescale = TRUE), get.nopars(m, rescale = TRUE))
v[c("var1", "var2", "var3")]

# 'nopars' is rescaled as shown in the previous example
# but it is not affected by the parameterization chosen for 'pars'
m <- stsm.model(model = "llm+seas", y = JohnsonJohnson, 
  pars = c("var2" = 3), cpar = c("var1" = 2), nopars = c("var3" = 6),
  transPars = "square")
v <- c(get.cpar(m, rescale = FALSE), get.pars(m, rescale = FALSE), get.nopars(m, rescale = FALSE))
v[c("var1", "var2", "var3")]
v <- c(get.cpar(m, rescale = TRUE), get.pars(m, rescale = TRUE), get.nopars(m, rescale = TRUE))
v[c("var1", "var2", "var3")]

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