sibp_exclusivity: Calculate Exclusivity Metric

In texteffect: Discovering Latent Treatments in Text Corpora and Estimating Their Causal Effects

Description

sibp_exculsivity calculates the coherence metric for an sibp object fit on a training set. sibp_rank_runs runs sibp_exclusivity on each element in the list returned by sibp_param_search, and ranks the parameter configurations from most to least promising.

Usage

	  sibp_exclusivity(sibp.fit, X, num.words = 10)
	  sibp_rank_runs(sibp.search, X, num.words = 10)

Arguments

sibp.fit	A sibp object.
sibp.search	A list of sibp object fit using the training set, obtained using sibp_param_search.
X	The covariates for the full data set. The division between the training and test set is handled inside the function.
num.words	The top words whose coherence will be evaluated.

Details

The metric is formally described at the top of page 1605 of https://aclweb.org/anthology/P/P16/P16-1151.pdf. The purpose of this metric is merely to suggest which parameter configurations might contain the most interesting treatments to test if there are too many configurations to investigate manually. The choice of the parameter configuration should always be made on the basis of which treatments are substantively the most interesting, see sibp_top_words.

Value

exclusivity	An exclusivity matrix which quantifies the degree to which the top words in a treatment appear in documents that have that treatment but not in documents that lack that treatment.
exclusivity_rank	A table that ranks the treatments discovered by the various runs from sibp.search from most exclusive to least exclusive.

Author(s)

Christian Fong

References

Fong, Christian and Justin Grimmer. 2016. “Discovery of Treatments from Text Corpora” Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclweb.org/anthology/P/P16/P16-1151.pdf

See Also

sibp_param_search, sibp_top_words

Examples

##Load the sample of Wikipedia biography data
data(BioSample)

# Divide into training and test sets
Y <- BioSample[,1]
X <- BioSample[,-1]
set.seed(1)
train.ind <- sample(1:nrow(X), size = 0.5*nrow(X), replace = FALSE)

# Search sIBP for several parameter configurations; fit each to the training set
sibp.search <- sibp_param_search(X, Y, K = 2, alphas = c(2,4),
                                 sigmasq.ns = c(0.8, 1), iters = 1,
							     train.ind = train.ind)
# Get metric for evaluating most promising parameter configurations
sibp_rank_runs(sibp.search, X, 10)

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