mvrt.test: Function for Computing Mean-Variance Regularized T-test Statistic and Its Significance

Description

End-user function for computing MVR t-test statistic and its significance (p-value) under sample group homoscedasticity or heteroscedasticity assumption. Return an object of class "mvrt.test". Offers the option of parallel computation for improved efficiency.

Usage

mvrt.test(data, 
              obj=NULL,
              block,
              tolog = FALSE, 
              nc.min = 1, 
              nc.max = 30, 
              pval = FALSE, 
              replace = FALSE, 
              n.resamp = 100, 
              parallel = FALSE,
              conf = NULL,
              verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

data

numeric matrix of untransformed (raw) data, where samples are by rows and variables (to be clustered) are by columns, or an object that can be coerced to such a matrix (such as a n

obj

Object of class "mvr" returned by mvr.

block

character or numeric vector or factor grouping/blocking variable of length the sample size. (see details).

tolog

logical scalar. Is the data to be log2-transformed first? Optional, defaults to FALSE. Note that negative or null values will be changed to 1 before taking log2-transformation.

nc.min

Positive integer scalar of the minimum number of clusters, defaults to 1

nc.max

Positive integer scalar of the maximum number of clusters, defaults to 30

pval

logical scalar. Shall p-values be computed? If not, n.resamp and replace will be ignored. If FALSE (default), t-statistic only will be computed, If TRUE, exact

replace

logical scalar. Shall permutation test (default) or bootstrap test be computed? If FALSE (default), permutation test will be computed with null permutation distribution, If TRUE, boo

n.resamp

Positive integer scalar of the number of resamplings to compute (default=100) by permutation or bootstsrap (see details).

parallel

logical scalar. Is parallel computing to be performed? Optional, defaults to FALSE.

conf

list of parameters for cluster configuration. Inputs for R package parallel function makeCluster (R package parallel) for cluster setup. Optional, defaults to NULL. S

verbose

logical scalar. Is the output to be verbose? Optional, defaults to TRUE.

Value

statisticvector, of size the number of variables, where entries are the t-statistics values of each variable.
p.valuevector, of size the number of variables, where entries are the p-values (if requested, otherwise NULL value) of each variable.

Details

Argument block is a vector or a factor grouping/blocking variable. It must be of length sample size with as many different character or numeric values as the number of levels or sample groups. The number of sample groups must be greater or equal to 2, and all group sample sizes must be greater than 1, otherwise the program will stop. Argument nc.max currently defaults to 30. We found in our hands that this is enough for most datasets tested. This depends on (i) the dimensionality/sample size ratio $\frac{p}{n}$, (ii) the signal/noise ratio, and (iii) whether a pre-transformation has been applied (see Dazard, J-E. and J. S. Rao (2012) for more details). See the cluster diagnostic function cluster.diagnostic for more details, whether larger values of nc.max may be required.

Argument n.resamp is reset to conf$cpus*ceiling(n.resamp/conf$cpus) in case the cluster is used (i.e. conf is non NULL), where conf$cpus denotes the total number of CPUs to be used (see below).

To save un-necessary computations, previously computed MVR clustering can be provided through option obj (i.e. obj is fully specified as a mvr object). In this case, arguments data, block, tolog, nc.min, nc.max are ignored. If obj is fully specified (i.e. an object of class "mvr" returned by mvr), the the MVR clustering provided by obj will be used for the computation of the regularized t-test statistics. If obj=NULL, a MVR clustering computation for the regularized t-test statistics and/or p-values will be performed. To run a parallel session (and parallel RNG) of the MVR procedures (parallel=TRUE), argument conf is to be specified (i.e. non NULL). It must list the specifications of the folowing parameters for cluster configuration: "names", "cpus", "type", "homo", "verbose", "outfile". These match the arguments described in function makeCluster of the R package parallel. All fields are required to properly configure the cluster, except for "names" and "cpus", which are the values used alternatively in the case of a cluster of type "SOCK" (socket), or in the case of a cluster of type other than "SOCK" (socket), respectively.

"names":names:charactervector specifying the host names on which to run the job. Could default to a unique local machine, in which case, one may use the unique host name "localhost". Each host name can potentially be repeated to the number of CPU cores available on the corresponding machine.
"cpus":spec:integerscalar specifying the total number of CPU cores to be used across the network of available nodes, counting the workernodes and masternode.
"type":type:charactervector specifying the cluster type ("SOCK", "PVM", "MPI").
"homo":homogeneous:logicalscalar to be set toFALSEfor inhomogeneous clusters.
"verbose":verbose:logicalscalar to be set toFALSEfor quiet mode.
"outfile":outfile:charactervector of the output log file name for the workernodes.

Note that the actual creation of the cluster, its initialization, and closing are all done internally. In addition, when random number generation is needed, the creation of separate streams of parallel RNG per node is done internally by distributing the stream states to the nodes (For more details see function makeCluster (R package parallel) and/or http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~luke/R/cluster/cluster.html. In case p-values are desired (pval=TRUE), the use of the cluster is highly recommended. It is ideal for computing embarassingly parallel tasks such as permutation or bootstrap resamplings. Note that in case both regularized t-test statistics and p-values are desired, in order to maximize computational efficiency and avoid multiple configurations (since a cluster can only be configured and used one session at a time, which otherwise would result in a run stop), the cluster configuration will only be used for the parallel computation of p-values, but not for the MVR clustering computation of the regularized t-test statistics.

References

Dazard J-E., Hua Xu and J. S. Rao (2011). "R package MVR for Joint Adaptive Mean-Variance Regularization and Variance Stabilization." In JSM Proceedings, Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts. Miami Beach, FL, USA: American Statistical Association IMS - JSM, 3849-3863.
Dazard J-E. and J. S. Rao (2012). "Joint Adaptive Mean-Variance Regularization and Variance Stabilization of High Dimensional Data." Comput. Statist. Data Anal. 56(7):2317-2333.

Examples

Run this code

#================================================
# Loading the library and its dependencies
#================================================
library("MVR")

#================================================
# MVR package news
#================================================
MVR.news()

#================================================
# MVR package citation
#================================================
citation("MVR")

#================================================
# Loading of the Synthetic and Real datasets 
# (see description of datasets)
#================================================
data("Synthetic", "Real", package="MVR")

#================================================
# Regularized t-test statistics (Synthetic dataset) 
# Multi-Group Assumption
# Assuming unequal variance between groups
# With option to use prior MVR clustering results
# Without computation of p-values
# Without cluster usage
#================================================
nc.min <- 1
nc.max <- 20
probs <- seq(0, 1, 0.01)
n <- 10
GF <- factor(gl(n = 2, k = n/2, len = n), 
             ordered = FALSE, 
             labels = c("G1", "G2"))
mvr.obj <- mvr(data = Synthetic, 
               block = GF, 
               tolog = FALSE, 
               nc.min = nc.min, 
               nc.max = nc.max, 
               probs = probs,
               B = 100,
               parallel = FALSE, 
               conf = NULL,
               verbose = TRUE)
mvrt.obj <- mvrt.test(obj = mvr.obj, 
                      pval = FALSE, 
                      parallel = FALSE, 
                      conf = NULL,
                      verbose = TRUE)
                      
#===================================================
# If setup of a SOCKET cluster:
# With 1 masternode and 3 workernodes
# All hosts run identical setups 
# Same number of core CPUs (8) per node
#===================================================
masterhost <- Sys.getenv("HOSTNAME")
slavehosts <- c("compute-0-0", "compute-0-1", "compute-0-2")
nodes <- length(slavehosts) + 1
cpus <- 8
conf <- list("names" = c(rep(masterhost, cpus), 
                         rep(slavehosts, cpus)),
             "cpus" = nodes * cpus, 
             "type" = "SOCK", 
             "homo" = TRUE, 
             "verbose" = TRUE,
             "outfile" = "")
#===================================================
# If setup of a PVM cluster (requires rpvm commands):
# With 1 masternode and 3 workernodes
# All hosts run identical setups 
# Same number of core CPUs (8) per node
#===================================================
if (.Platform$OS.type == "unix") {
    if (!is.loaded("rpvm")) {
            library("rpvm")
    }
}
masterhost <- Sys.getenv("HOSTNAME")
slavehosts <- c("compute-0-0", "compute-0-1", "compute-0-2")
nodes <- length(slavehosts) + 1
cpus <- 8
conf <- list("cpus" = nodes * cpus, 
             "type" = "PVM", 
             "homo" = TRUE, 
             "verbose" = TRUE,
             "outfile" = "")
.PVM.start.pvmd(hosts = masterhost) 
.PVM.addhosts(hosts = slavehosts)
#===================================================
# Mean-Variance Regularization (Real dataset)
# Multi-Group Assumption
# Assuming unequal variance between groups
#===================================================
nc.min <- 1
nc.max <- 30
probs <- seq(0, 1, 0.01)
n <- 6
GF <- factor(gl(n = 2, k = n/2, len = n), 
             ordered = FALSE, 
             labels = c("M", "S"))
mvr.obj <- mvr(data = Real, 
               block = GF, 
               tolog = FALSE, 
               nc.min = nc.min, 
               nc.max = nc.max, 
               probs = probs,
               B = 100, 
               parallel = TRUE, 
               conf = conf,
               verbose = TRUE)
#===================================================
# Regularized t-test statistics (Real dataset) 
# Multi-Group Assumption
# Assuming unequal variance between groups
# With option to use prior MVR clustering results
# With computation of p-values
#===================================================
mvrt.obj <- mvrt.test(obj = mvr.obj, 
                      pval = TRUE, 
                      replace = FALSE, 
                      n.resamp = 100, 
                      parallel = TRUE, 
                      conf = conf,
                      verbose = TRUE)
#===================================================
# If PVM cluster used (requires rpvm commands):
#===================================================
.PVM.delhosts(hosts = slavehosts)
.PVM.delhosts(hosts = masterhost)
.PVM.halt()
#===================================================

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