glm_studt: Fit GLM with a regularized student-t prior regression...

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Fit GLM with a regularized student-t prior regression coefficients

Description

Program for fitting a GLM equipped with a regularized student-t prior on the regression coefficients, parametrized using the normal-inverse-gamma distribution. The 'regularization' refers to the fact that the inverse-gamma scale is has a finite upper bound that it smoothly approaches. This method was not used in the simulation study but was used in the data analysis. Specifically, it corresponds to 'PedRESC2'.

Usage

glm_studt(
  y,
  x_standardized,
  family = "binomial",
  beta_scale,
  dof = 1,
  slab_dof = Inf,
  slab_scale = 15,
  mu_sd = 5,
  only_prior = F,
  mc_warmup = 1000,
  mc_iter_after_warmup = 1000,
  mc_chains = 1,
  mc_thin = 1,
  mc_stepsize = 0.1,
  mc_adapt_delta = 0.9,
  mc_max_treedepth = 15,
  return_as_CmdStanMCMC = FALSE,
  seed = sample.int(.Machine$integer.max, 1),
  slab_precision = NULL
)

Arguments

y	(vector) outcomes corresponding to the type of glm desired. This should match whatever datatype is expected by the stan program.
x_standardized	(matrix) matrix of numeric values with number of rows equal to the length of y and number of columns equal to p+q. It is assumed without verification that each column is standardized to whatever scale the prior expects - in Boonstra and Barbaro, all predictors are marginally generated to have mean zero and unit variance, so no standardization is conducted. In practice, all data should be standardized to have a common scale before model fitting. If regression coefficients on the natural scale are desired, they be easily obtained through unstandardizing.
family	(character) Similar to argument in glm with the same name, but here this must be a character, and currently only 'binomial' (if y is binary) or 'gaussian' (if y is continuous) are valid choices.
beta_scale	(pos. real) constants indicating the prior scale of the student-t prior.
dof	(pos. integer) degrees of freedom for the student-t prior
slab_dof	see slab_scale
slab_scale	(pos. real) these control the slab-part of the regularized horseshoe. Specifically, in the notation of Boonstra and Barbaro, d^2~InverseGamma(slab_dof/2, slab_scale^2*slab_dof/2). In Boonstra and Barbaro, d was fixed at 15, and you can achieve this by leaving these at their default values of slab_dof = Inf and slab_scale = 15.
mu_sd	(pos. real) the prior standard deviation for the intercept parameter mu
only_prior	(logical) should all data be ignored, sampling only from the prior?
mc_warmup	number of MCMC warm-up iterations
mc_iter_after_warmup	number of MCMC iterations after warm-up
mc_chains	number of MCMC chains
mc_thin	every nth draw to keep
mc_stepsize	positive stepsize
mc_adapt_delta	between 0 and 1
mc_max_treedepth	max tree depth
return_as_CmdStanMCMC	(logical) should the function return the CmdStanMCMC object asis or should a summary of CmdStanMCMC be returned as a regular list
seed	seed for the underlying STAN model to allow for reproducibility
slab_precision	(pos. real) the slab-part of the regularized horseshoe, this is equivalent to (1/d)^2 in the notation of Boonstra and Barbaro. If specified, it is assumed that you want a fixed slab component and will take precedence over any provided values of slab_dof and slab_scale; slab_precision is provided for backwards compatibility but will be going away in a future release, and the proper way to specify a fixed slab component with with precision 1/d^2 for some number d is through slab_dof = Inf and slab_scale = d.

Value

list object containing the draws and other information.

Examples

    data(historical)

    foo = glm_studt(y = historical$y_hist,
                    x_standardized = historical[,2:5],
                    family = "binomial",
                    beta_scale = 0.0231,
                    dof = 1,
                    mu_sd = 5,
                    only_prior = 0,
                    mc_warmup = 200,
                    mc_iter_after_warmup = 200,
                    mc_chains = 2,
                    mc_thin = 1,
                    mc_stepsize = 0.1,
                    mc_adapt_delta = 0.99,
                    mc_max_treedepth = 15);

    data(current)

    foo = glm_studt(y = current$y_curr,
                    x_standardized = current[,2:11],
                    family = "binomial",
                    beta_scale = 0.0231,
                    dof = 1,
                    mu_sd = 5,
                    only_prior = 0,
                    mc_warmup = 200,
                    mc_iter_after_warmup = 200,
                    mc_chains = 2,
                    mc_thin = 1,
                    mc_stepsize = 0.1,
                    mc_adapt_delta = 0.99,
                    mc_max_treedepth = 15);

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