Description Usage Arguments Details Value See Also Examples
Maximum a posteriori estimation for linear and generalized
linear mixed-effects models in a Bayesian setting. Built off of
lmer
.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 | blmer(formula, data = NULL, REML = TRUE,
control = lmerControl(), start = NULL, verbose = 0L,
subset, weights, na.action, offset, contrasts = NULL,
devFunOnly = FALSE, cov.prior = wishart,
fixef.prior = NULL, resid.prior = NULL, ...)
bglmer(formula, data = NULL, family = gaussian,
control = glmerControl(), start = NULL, verbose = 0L,
nAGQ = 1L, subset, weights, na.action, offset,
contrasts = NULL, mustart, etastart,
devFunOnly = FALSE, cov.prior = wishart,
fixef.prior = NULL, ...)
|
cov.prior |
a BLME prior or list of priors with allowable
distributions: |
fixef.prior |
a BLME prior of family |
resid.prior |
a BLME prior of family |
start |
like the |
formula, data, REML, family, control, verbose, nAGQ,
mustart, etastart, devFunOnly, ... |
model specification arguments as in |
subset, weights, na.action, offset, contrasts |
further model
specification arguments as in |
The bulk of the usage for blmer
and bglmer
closely
follows the functions lmer
and
glmer
. Those help pages provide a good overview of
fitting linear and generalized linear mixed models. The primary
distinction is that blmer
and bglmer
allow the user to
do Bayesian inference or penalized maximum likelihood, with priors imposed on the different
model components. For the specifics of any distribution listed below,
see the distributions page.
Covariance Prior
The cov.prior
argument applies a prior over the
covariance matrix of the random effects/modeled coefficients.
As there is one covariance matrix for every named grouping factor -
that is every element that appears to the right of a vertical bar
("|") in the model formula - it is possible to apply as many
different priors as there are said factors.
The general formats of an argument to blmer
or bglmer
for such a prior are of the form:
cov.prior = factor.name ~ covariance.distribution(option1 = value1, ...)
cov.prior = list(fc.nm ~ dist1, fc.nm ~ dist2, ..., default.distribution)
If the “factor.name ~
” construct is ommitted, the prior
is interpretted as a default and applied to all factors that
lack specific priors of their own. Options are not required,
but permit fine-tuning of the model.
Supported distributions are gamma
, invgamma
, wishart
,
invwishart
, NULL
, and custom
.
The common.scale
option, a logical, determines whether or
not the prior applies to in the absolute-real world
sense (value = FALSE
), or if the prior is applied to the random effect
covariance divided by the estimated residual variance (TRUE
). As a practical matter,
when false computation can be slower as the profiled common scale may
no longer have a closed-form solution. As such, the default for all
cases is TRUE
.
Other options are specified along with the specific distributions and defaults are explained in the blme distributions page.
Fixed Effects Prior
Priors on the fixed effects, or unmodeled coefficients, are specified in a fashion similar to that of covariance priors. The general format is
fixef.prior = multivariate.distribution(options1 = value1, ...)
At present, the implemented multivariate distributions are normal
, t
,
horseshoe
, and NULL
. t
and horseshoe
priors cannot be used
when REML
is TRUE
, as that integral does not have a closed form solution.
Residual Variance Prior
The general format for a residual variance prior is the same as for a fixed
effect prior. The supported distributions are point
, gamma
,
invgamma
.
An object of class "bmerMod"
, for which many methods
are available. See there for details.
lmer
, glmer
,
merMod
class, and lm
.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 | data("sleepstudy", package = "lme4")
### Examples using a covariance prior ##
# Here we are ignoring convergence warnings just to illustate how the package
# is used: this is not a good idea in practice..
control <- lmerControl(check.conv.grad = "ignore")
(fm1 <- blmer(Reaction ~ Days + (0 + Days|Subject), sleepstudy,
control = control,
cov.prior = gamma))
(fm2 <- blmer(Reaction ~ Days + (0 + Days|Subject), sleepstudy,
control = control,
cov.prior = gamma(shape = 2, rate = 0.5, posterior.scale = 'sd')))
(fm3 <- blmer(Reaction ~ Days + (1 + Days|Subject), sleepstudy,
control = control,
cov.prior = wishart))
(fm4 <- blmer(Reaction ~ Days + (1 + Days|Subject), sleepstudy,
control = control,
cov.prior = invwishart(df = 5, scale = diag(0.5, 2))))
# Custom prior
penaltyFn <- function(sigma)
dcauchy(sigma, 0, 10, log = TRUE)
(fm5 <- blmer(Reaction ~ Days + (0 + Days|Subject), sleepstudy,
cov.prior = custom(penaltyFn, chol = TRUE, scale = "log")))
### Examples using a fixed effect prior ###
(fm6 <- blmer(Reaction ~ Days + (1 + Days|Subject), sleepstudy,
cov.prior = NULL,
fixef.prior = normal))
(fm7 <- blmer(Reaction ~ Days + (1 + Days|Subject), sleepstudy,
cov.prior = NULL,
fixef.prior = normal(cov = diag(0.5, 2), common.scale = FALSE)))
### Example using a residual variance prior ###
# This is the "eight schools" data set; the mode should be at the boundary
# of the space.
control <- lmerControl(check.conv.singular = "ignore",
check.nobs.vs.nRE = "ignore",
check.nobs.vs.nlev = "ignore")
y <- c(28, 8, -3, 7, -1, 1, 18, 12)
sigma <- c(15, 10, 16, 11, 9, 11, 10, 18)
g <- 1:8
(schools <- blmer(y ~ 1 + (1 | g), control = control, REML = FALSE,
resid.prior = point, cov.prior = NULL,
weights = 1 / sigma^2))
|
Loading required package: lme4
Loading required package: Matrix
Cov prior : Subject ~ gamma(shape = 2.5, rate = 0, posterior.scale = sd, common.scale = TRUE)
Prior dev : 3.9858
Linear mixed model fit by REML ['blmerMod']
Formula: Reaction ~ Days + (0 + Days | Subject)
Data: sleepstudy
REML criterion at convergence: 1766.612
Random effects:
Groups Name Std.Dev.
Subject Days 7.648
Residual 28.875
Number of obs: 180, groups: Subject, 18
Fixed Effects:
(Intercept) Days
251.41 10.47
Cov prior : Subject ~ gamma(shape = 2, rate = 0.5, posterior.scale = sd, common.scale = TRUE)
Prior dev : 5.7375
Linear mixed model fit by REML ['blmerMod']
Formula: Reaction ~ Days + (0 + Days | Subject)
Data: sleepstudy
REML criterion at convergence: 1766.553
Random effects:
Groups Name Std.Dev.
Subject Days 7.477
Residual 28.935
Number of obs: 180, groups: Subject, 18
Fixed Effects:
(Intercept) Days
251.41 10.47
Cov prior : Subject ~ wishart(df = 4.5, scale = Inf, posterior.scale = cov, common.scale = TRUE)
Prior dev : 4.1552
Linear mixed model fit by REML ['blmerMod']
Formula: Reaction ~ Days + (1 + Days | Subject)
Data: sleepstudy
REML criterion at convergence: 1743.767
Random effects:
Groups Name Std.Dev. Corr
Subject (Intercept) 25.420
Days 6.351 0.00
Residual 25.396
Number of obs: 180, groups: Subject, 18
Fixed Effects:
(Intercept) Days
251.41 10.47
Cov prior : Subject ~ invwishart(df = 5, scale = c(0.5, 0, 0, 0.5), posterior.scale = cov, common.scale = TRUE)
Prior dev : 1.7533
Linear mixed model fit by REML ['blmerMod']
Formula: Reaction ~ Days + (1 + Days | Subject)
Data: sleepstudy
REML criterion at convergence: 1743.69
Random effects:
Groups Name Std.Dev. Corr
Subject (Intercept) 25.190
Days 6.212 0.04
Residual 25.450
Number of obs: 180, groups: Subject, 18
Fixed Effects:
(Intercept) Days
251.41 10.47
Cov prior : Subject ~ custom(fn = penaltyFn, chol = TRUE, scale = log, common.scale = TRUE)
Prior dev : 6.8959
Linear mixed model fit by REML ['blmerMod']
Formula: Reaction ~ Days + (0 + Days | Subject)
Data: sleepstudy
REML criterion at convergence: 1766.525
Random effects:
Groups Name Std.Dev.
Subject Days 7.26
Residual 29.02
Number of obs: 180, groups: Subject, 18
Fixed Effects:
(Intercept) Days
251.41 10.47
Fixef prior: normal(sd = c(10, 2.5), corr = 0, common.scale = TRUE)
Prior dev : 24.0661
Linear mixed model fit by REML ['blmerMod']
Formula: Reaction ~ Days + (1 + Days | Subject)
Data: sleepstudy
REML criterion at convergence: 1743.634
Random effects:
Groups Name Std.Dev. Corr
Subject (Intercept) 24.772
Days 5.927 0.06
Residual 25.503
Number of obs: 180, groups: Subject, 18
Fixed Effects:
(Intercept) Days
251.23 10.47
Fixef prior: normal(sd = c(0.7071, 0.7071), corr = 0, common.scale = FALSE)
Prior dev : 2.2959
Linear mixed model fit by REML ['blmerMod']
Formula: Reaction ~ Days + (1 + Days | Subject)
Data: sleepstudy
REML criterion at convergence: 1830.665
Random effects:
Groups Name Std.Dev. Corr
Subject (Intercept) 252.49
Days 11.90 0.88
Residual 25.59
Number of obs: 180, groups: Subject, 18
Fixed Effects:
(Intercept) Days
0.0335 0.0458
Resid prior: point(value = 1)
Prior dev : 0
Linear mixed model fit by maximum likelihood ['blmerMod']
Formula: y ~ 1 + (1 | g)
Weights: 1/sigma^2
AIC BIC logLik deviance df.resid
65.3485 65.5868 -29.6742 59.3485 5
Random effects:
Groups Name Std.Dev.
g (Intercept) 0
Residual 1
Number of obs: 8, groups: g, 8
Fixed Effects:
(Intercept)
7.686
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