xi2: Computes the Xi squared coefficient for a multivariate linear...

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Computes the Xi squared coefficient for a multivariate linear hypothesis

Description

Computes the Xi squared index of "effect magnitude". The maximization of this criterion is equivalent to the maximization of the traditional test statistic, the Bartllet-Pillai trace.

Usage

xi2.coef(mat, H, r, indices,
tolval=10*.Machine$double.eps, tolsym=1000*.Machine$double.eps)

Arguments

mat	the Variance or Total sums of squares and products matrix for the full data set.
H	the Effect description sums of squares and products matrix (defined in the same way as the mat matrix).
r	the Expected rank of the H matrix. See the Details below.
indices	a numerical vector, matrix or 3-d array of integers giving the indices of the variables in the subset. If a matrix is specified, each row is taken to represent a different k-variable subset. If a 3-d array is given, it is assumed that the third dimension corresponds to different cardinalities.
tolval	the tolerance level to be used in checks for ill-conditioning and positive-definiteness of the 'total' and 'effects' (H) matrices. Values smaller than tolval are considered equivalent to zero.
tolsym	the tolerance level for symmetry of the covariance/correlation/total matrix and for the effects (H) matrix. If corresponding matrix entries differ by more than this value, the input matrices will be considered asymmetric and execution will be aborted. If corresponding entries are different, but by less than this value, the input matrix will be replaced by its symmetric part, i.e., input matrix A becomes (A+t(A))/2.

Details

Different kinds of statistical methodologies are considered within the framework, of a multivariate linear model:

X = A \Psi + U

where X is the (nxp) data matrix of original variables, A is a known (nxp) design matrix, \Psi an (qxp) matrix of unknown parameters and U an (nxp) matrix of residual vectors. The Xi squared index is related to the traditional test statistic (Bartllet-Pillai trace) and measures the contribution of each subset to an Effect characterized by the violation of a linear hypothesis of the form C \Psi = 0, where C is a known cofficient matrix of rank r. The Bartllet-Pillai trace (P) is given by: P=tr(HT^{-1}) where H is the Effect matrix and T is the Total matrix. The Xi squared index is related to Bartllet-Pillai trace (P) by:

\xi^2 =\frac{P}{r}

where r is the rank of H matrix.

The fact that indices can be a matrix or 3-d array allows for the computation of the Xi squared values of subsets produced by the search functions anneal, genetic, improve and eleaps (whose output option $subsets are matrices or 3-d arrays), using a different criterion (see the example below).

Value

The value of the \xi^2 coefficient.

Examples

## ---------------------------------------------------------------

## 1) A Linear Discriminant Analysis example with a very small data set. 
## We considered the Iris data and three groups, 
## defined by species (setosa, versicolor and virginica).

data(iris)
irisHmat <- ldaHmat(iris[1:4],iris$Species)
xi2.coef(irisHmat$mat,H=irisHmat$H,r=2,c(1,3))
## [1] 0.4942503

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## 2) An example computing the value of the xi_2 criterion for two subsets 
## produced when the anneal function attempted to optimize the tau_2 
## criterion (using an absurdly small number of iterations).

tauresults<-anneal(irisHmat$mat,2,nsol=2,niter=2,criterion="tau2",
H=irisHmat$H,r=2)
xi2.coef(irisHmat$mat,H=irisHmat$H,r=2,tauresults$subsets)

##              Card.2
##Solution 1 0.5718811
##Solution 2 0.5232262

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