mixture: Estimate mixture latent variable model

In lava.mixture: Mixtures of Linear Latent Variable Models

Description

Estimate parameters in a mixture of latent variable models via the EM algorithm.

Usage

mixture(x, data, k=length(x), control, FUN, type=c("standard","CEM","SEM"),...)

Arguments

x	List of lvm objects. If only a single lvm object is given, then a k-mixture of this model is fitted (free parameters varying between mixture components)
data	data.frame
k	Number of mixture components
control	Optimization parameters (see details)
FUN	See details below
type	Type of EM algorithm (standard, classification, stochastic)
...	Additional arguments parsed to lower-level functions

Details

The performance of the EM algorithm can be tuned via the control argument, a list where a subset of the following members can be altered:

start

Optional starting values

nstart

Evaluate nstart different starting values and run the EM-algorithm on the parameters with largest likelihood

tol

Convergence tolerance of the EM-algorithm. The algorithm is stopped when the absolute change in likelihood and parameter (2-norm) between successive iterations is less than tol

iter.max

Maximum number of iterations of the EM-algorithm

gamma

Scale-down (i.e. number between 0 and 1) of the step-size of the Newton-Raphson algorithm in the M-step

trace

Trace information on the EM-algorithm is printed on every traceth iteration

Note that the algorithm can be aborted any time (C-c) and still be saved (via on.exit call).

Value

A mixture object

Author(s)

Klaus K. Holst

See Also

mvnmix

Examples

set.seed(1)
m0 <- lvm(list(y~x+z,x~z))
distribution(m0,~z) <- binomial.lvm()
d <- sim(m0,500,p=c("y<-z"=2,"y<-x"=1))

## unmeasured confounder example
m <- baptize(lvm(y~x));
covariance(m,~x) <- "v"
intercept(m,~x+y) <- NA


M <- mixture(m,k=2,data=d,control=list(trace=1,tol=1e-4))
summary(M)
lm(y~x,d)
## True slope := 1

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