--- title: "Modeling Matrix-Variate Non-Gaussian Distributions" output: rmarkdown::html_vignette bibliography: referenc.bib vignette: > %\VignetteIndexEntry{Modeling Matrix-Variate Non-Gaussian Distributions} %\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown} %\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8} --- ```{r, include = FALSE} knitr::opts_chunk$set( collapse = TRUE, include= TRUE, eval = FALSE, comment = "#>" ) library(MVNGmod) ``` ## About The functions in this package are designed to handle ECM-based parameter estimation of models with error following a distribution of the matrix-variate non-Gaussian (MVNG) class. Currently, the matrix-variate extensions of the variance-gamma (MVVG) and normal-inverse Gaussian (MVNIG) distributions are implemented, along with subject-wise case deletion diagnostics for each model. ## Modeling Matrix-variate non-Gaussian Distributions ### Matrix-Variate Non-Gaussian Distributions Matrix-variate non-Gaussian (MVNG) distributions are a class of distributions introduced by Gallaugher & McNicholas [@gallaugher2018skewedmatrixvariatedistributions], which extend to two dimensions a number of multivariate distributions. Specifically, we extend a set of distributions stochastically tractable under normal variance-mean mixtures $$ Y = \alpha +\beta V \sqrt{V}W, $$ where $\alpha, \beta$ are constants, $V$ is a standard normal random variable, and $W$ is a non-negative random variable. $W$ follows the gamma distribution in the case of MVVG, and generalized inverse-Gaussian in the case of MVNIG. The extension to matrix-variate is performed by inserting an additional covariance parameter, which regulates between-response covariance. ### Model The MVNG modeling equation is $$ Y_i = X_i\Theta + E_i, $$ where $X_i$ is an explanatory variable matrix, $Y_i$ is a matrix with response columns, $\Theta$ represents the corresponding coefficient matrix. $E_i$ follows the distribution family $MVNG(0, \underline{a}, \rho, \Psi, ...)$, where $\underline{a}$ is a skewness vector corresponding to each row observation, $\rho$ represents the correlation parameter of the compound-symmetric row covariance matrix, and $\Psi$ is the response covariance matrix. Additional parameters endemic to each MVNG are also included based on the choice of $W$. Model parameters are estimated using an ECM implementation, with multiple runs advised. ### Case-Deletion When the data are well-approximated around a Gaussian distribution, outlying points tend to be easily distinguishable, and leverage statistics can be computed based on the observed likelihood. However, since MVNG models are ECM-based, direct calculation of Cook's distances is computationally intensive. We instead provide a one-step approximation, and use the score and Hessian expressions of the ECM complete-data likelihoods [@a2] to derive the case-deleted model estimated $$ \hat\theta^1_{[i]} = \hat\theta - \ddot Q(\hat\theta|\hat\theta)^{-1} \dot Q_{[i]}(\hat\theta|\hat\theta) $$ for each subject. Substituting this expression into the generalized Cook's distance computation yields the expression, $$ GD_i^1(\theta) = \dot Q_{[i]}(\hat\theta|\hat\theta)^T [-\ddot Q(\hat\theta|\hat\theta)]^{-1}\dot Q_{[i]}(\hat\theta|\hat\theta). $$ where $\dot Q_{[i]}(\hat\theta|\hat\theta) = \frac{\partial Q_{[i]}(\theta|\hat\theta)}{\partial\theta}|_{\theta = \hat\theta}$ is the complete-data score function with the $i$th subject deleted and evaluated at $\hat\theta$, and $\ddot Q(\hat\theta|\hat\theta) = \frac{\partial^2 Q(\theta|\hat\theta)}{\partial\theta \partial\theta^T}|_{\theta = \hat\theta}$ is the complete-data Hessian matrix, as given in Lachos \emph{et al.} (2015) [@Matos2015-qm]. ## Data Input The current versions of the MVNG modeling functions solely accept lists of matrices as inputs for $X$ and $Y$. $X$ represents the list of subject design matrices, while $Y$ should be a list of matrices, with each column indexing a single response variable. Modeling functions additionally allow arguments for the initial parameter estimate, tolerance, and maximum iterations. ## Functions ### MVVG Model Fitting an MVVG model to the dataset can be performed using the following function call. Returned values include the number of iterations at convergence, initial parameter estimate, final parameter estimate, L-infinity norm of the change in parameter space across each iteration, model AIC, and model BIC. The parameter space of the model includes the endemic parameter $\gamma$ in addition to $\Theta, \underline{a}, \rho, \Psi$. ```{r} MVVGmod(Y,X, theta_g = theta_mvvg, stopping = 0.001, max_iter = 50) ``` ### MVNIG Model A MVNIG model can be fit to a dataset in the same way as the MVVG model, using the following function call. The parameter space remains identical, except that the endemic parameter $\gamma$ is replaced by $\tilde\gamma$ as the mixing distribution $W$ is unique to each MVNG distribution. ```{r} MVNIGmod(Y, X, theta_g = theta_mvnig, stopping = 0.001, max_iter = 50) ``` ### Case Deletion Case deletion can be performed on a dataset and model through a call to the case_del function, which returns a vector of approximate generalized Cook's distances for each subject. ```{r} mod <- MVNIGmod(Y, X, theta_mvnig) case_del(Y, X, mod) ``` ### Prediction Model prediction on new dataset can be performed on a dataset and model through the following function call, which returns a list of predicted matrix values. ```{r} mvnig_mod <- MVNIGmod(Y, X, theta_mvnig) predict(mvnig_mod, X) ``` ## References