mmlt: Multivariate Conditional Transformation Models

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Multivariate Conditional Transformation Models

Description

Conditional transformation models for multivariate continuous, discrete, or a mix of continuous and discrete outcomes

Usage

Mmlt(..., formula = ~ 1, data, conditional = FALSE, 
     theta = NULL, fixed = NULL, scaleparm = FALSE,
     optim = mltoptim(hessian = TRUE),
     args = list(seed = 1, type = c("MC", "ghalton"), M = 1000), 
     fit = c("jointML", "pseudo", "ACS", "sequential", "none"),
     ACSiter = 2)

Arguments

...	marginal transformation models, one for each response, for Mmlt. Additional arguments for the methods.
formula	a model formula describing a model for the dependency structure via the lambda parameters. The default is set to ~ 1 for constant lambdas.
data	a data.frame.
conditional	logical; parameters are defined conditionally (only possible when all models are probit models). This is the default as described by \bibcitettram::Klein:Hothorn:Barbanti:2020. If FALSE, parameters can be directly interpreted marginally, this is explained in Section 2.6 by \bibcitettram::Klein:Hothorn:Barbanti:2020. Using conditional = FALSE with probit-only models gives the same likelihood but different parameter estimates.
theta	an optional vector of starting values.
fixed	an optional named numeric vector of predefined parameter values or a logical (for coef) indicating to also return fixed parameters (only when type = "all").
scaleparm	a logical indicating if (internal) scaling shall be applied to the model coefficients.
optim	a list of optimisers as returned by mltoptim
args	a list of arguments for lpmvnorm.
fit	character vector describing how to fit the model. The default is joint likelihood estimation of all parameters, pseudo fixes the marginal parameters, sequential starts with a univariate model and sequentially adds models, keeping the parameters of previously added models fit. ACS implements Alternate Convex Search, starting with pseudo and, in a second step, fixing the marginal parameters. This is iterated for ACSiter iterations.
ACSiter	number of iterations for fit = "ACS".

Details

The function implements multivariate conditional transformation models as described by \bibcitettram::Klein:Hothorn:Barbanti:2020. Below is a simple example for an unconditional bivariate distribution. See demo("undernutrition", package = "tram") for a conditional three-variate example.

Value

An object of class Mmlt with coef and predict methods.

References

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Examples

  data("cars")

  ### fit unconditional bivariate distribution of speed and distance to stop
  ## fit unconditional marginal transformation models
  m_speed <- BoxCox(speed ~ 1, data = cars, support = ss <- c(4, 25), 
                    add = c(-5, 5))
  m_dist <- BoxCox(dist ~ 1, data = cars, support = sd <- c(0, 120), 
                   add = c(-5, 5))

  ## fit multivariate unconditional transformation model
  m_speed_dist <- Mmlt(m_speed, m_dist, formula = ~ 1, data = cars)

  ## log-likelihood
  logLik(m_speed_dist)
  sum(predict(m_speed_dist, newdata = cars, type = "density", log = TRUE))

  ## Wald test of independence of speed and dist (the "dist.speed.(Intercept)"
  ## coefficient)
  summary(m_speed_dist)

  ## LR test comparing to independence model
  LR <- 2 * (logLik(m_speed_dist) - logLik(m_speed) - logLik(m_dist))
  pchisq(LR, df = 1, lower.tail = FALSE)

  ## constrain lambda to zero and fit independence model
  ## => log-likelihood is the sum of the marginal log-likelihoods
  mI <- Mmlt(m_speed, m_dist, formula = ~1, data = cars, 
             fixed = c("dist.speed.(Intercept)" = 0))
  logLik(m_speed) + logLik(m_dist)
  logLik(mI)

  ## linear correlation, ie Pearson correlation of speed and dist after
  ## transformation to bivariate normality
  (r <- coef(m_speed_dist, type = "Corr"))
  
  ## Spearman's rho (rank correlation) of speed and dist on original scale
  (rs <- coef(m_speed_dist, type = "Spearman"))

  ## evaluate joint and marginal densities (needs to be more user-friendly)
  nd <- expand.grid(c(nd_s <- mkgrid(m_speed, 100), nd_d <- mkgrid(m_dist, 100)))
  nd$d <- predict(m_speed_dist, newdata = nd, type = "density")

  ## compute marginal densities
  nd_s <- as.data.frame(nd_s)
  nd_s$d <- predict(m_speed_dist, newdata = nd_s, margins = 1L,
                    type = "density")
  nd_d <- as.data.frame(nd_d)
  nd_d$d <- predict(m_speed_dist, newdata = nd_d, margins = 2L, 
                    type = "density")

  ## plot bivariate and marginal distribution
  col1 <- rgb(.1, .1, .1, .9)
  col2 <- rgb(.1, .1, .1, .5)
  w <- c(.8, .2)
  layout(matrix(c(2, 1, 4, 3), nrow = 2), width = w, height = rev(w))
  par(mai = c(1, 1, 0, 0) * par("mai"))
  sp <- unique(nd$speed)
  di <- unique(nd$dist)
  d <- matrix(nd$d, nrow = length(sp))
  contour(sp, di, d, xlab = "Speed (in mph)", ylab = "Distance (in ft)", xlim = ss, ylim = sd,
          col = col1)
  points(cars$speed, cars$dist, pch = 19, col = col2)
  mai <- par("mai")
  par(mai = c(0, 1, 0, 1) * mai)
  plot(d ~ speed, data = nd_s, xlim = ss, type = "n", axes = FALSE, 
       xlab = "", ylab = "")
  polygon(nd_s$speed, nd_s$d, col = col2, border = FALSE)
  par(mai = c(1, 0, 1, 0) * mai)
  plot(dist ~ d, data = nd_d, ylim = sd, type = "n", axes = FALSE, 
       xlab = "", ylab = "")
  polygon(nd_d$d, nd_d$dist, col = col2, border = FALSE)

  ### NOTE: marginal densities are NOT normal, nor is the joint
  ### distribution. The non-normal shape comes from the data-driven 
  ### transformation of both variables to joint normality in this model.

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