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HLSM (version 0.9.0)

HLSMrandomEF: Function to run the MCMC sampler in random effects latent space model, HLSMfixedEF for fixed effects model, or LSM for single network latent space model)

Description

Function to run the MCMC sampler to draw from the posterior distribution of intercept, slopes, and latent positions. HLSMrandomEF( ) fits random effects model; HLSMfixedEF( ) fits fixed effects model; LSM( ) fits single network model.

Usage

HLSMrandomEF(Y,edgeCov=NULL, receiverCov = NULL, senderCov = NULL, 
        FullX = NULL,initialVals = NULL, priors = NULL, tune = NULL,
        tuneIn = TRUE,dd=2, niter)

HLSMfixedEF(Y,edgeCov=NULL, receiverCov = NULL, senderCov = NULL, FullX = NULL, initialVals = NULL, priors = NULL, tune = NULL, tuneIn = TRUE,dd=2, niter) LSM(Y,edgeCov=NULL, receiverCov = NULL, senderCov = NULL, FullX = NULL,initialVals = NULL, priors = NULL, tune = NULL, tuneIn = TRUE,dd=2, estimate.intercept=FALSE, niter)

getBeta(object, burnin = 0, thin = 1) getIntercept(object, burnin = 0, thin = 1) getLS(object, burnin = 0, thin = 1) getLikelihood(object, burnin = 0, thin = 1)

Arguments

Y

input outcome for different networks. Y can either be

(i). list of sociomatrices for K different networks (Y[[i]] must be a matrix with named rows and columns)

(ii). list of data frame with columns Sender, Receiver and Outcome for K different networks

(iii). a dataframe with columns named as follows: id to identify network, Receiver for receiver nodes, Sender for sender nodes and finally, Outcome for the edge outcome.

edgeCov

data frame to specify edge level covariates with

(i). a column for network id named id,

(ii). a column for sender node named Sender,

(iii). a column for receiver nodes named Receiver, and

(iv). columns for values of each edge level covariates.

receiverCov

a data frame to specify nodal covariates as edge receivers with

(i.) a column for network id named id,

(ii.) a column Node for node names, and

(iii). the rest for respective node level covariates.

senderCov

a data frame to specify nodal covariates as edge senders with

(i). a column for network id named id,

(ii). a column Node for node names, and

(iii). the rest for respective node level covariates.

FullX

list of numeric arrays of dimension n by n by p of covariates for K different networks. When FullX is provided to the function, edgeCov, receiverCov and senderCov must be specified as NULL.

initialVals

an optional list of values to initialize the chain. If NULL default initialization is used, else initialVals = list(ZZ, beta, intercept, alpha).

For fixed effect model beta is a vector of length p and intercept is a vector of length 1.

For random effect model beta is an array of dimension K by p, and intercept is a vector of length K, where p is the number of covariates and K is the number of network.

ZZ is an array of dimension NN by dd, where NN is the sum of nodes in all K networks.

priors

an optional list to specify the hyper-parameters for the prior distribution of the paramters. If priors = NULL, default value is used. Else,

priors=

list(MuBeta,VarBeta,MuZ,VarZ,PriorA,PriorB)

MuBeta is a numeric vector of length PP + 1 specifying the mean of prior distribution for coefficients and intercept

VarBeta is a numeric vector for the variance of the prior distribution of coefficients and intercept. Its length is same as that of MuBeta.

MuZ is a numeric vector of length same as the dimension of the latent space, specifying the prior mean of the latent positions.

VarZ is a numeric vector of length same as the dimension of the latent space, specifying diagonal of the variance covariance matrix of the prior of latent positions.

PriorA, PriorB is a numeric variable to indicate the rate and scale parameters for the inverse gamma prior distribution of the hyper parameter of variance of slope and intercept

tune

an optional list of tuning parameters for tuning the chain. If tune = NULL, default tuning is done. Else,

tune = list(tuneBeta, tuneInt,tuneZ).

tuneBeta and tuneInt have the same structure as beta and intercept in initialVals.

ZZ is a vector of length NN.

tuneIn

a logical to indicate whether tuning is needed in the MCMC sampling. Default is FALSE.

dd

dimension of latent space.

estimate.intercept

When TRUE, the intercept will be estimated. If the variance of the latent positions are of interest, intercept=FALSE will allow users to obtain a unique variance. The intercept can also be inputed by the user.

niter

number of iterations for the MCMC chain.

object

object of class 'HLSM' returned by HLSM() or HLSMfixedEF()

burnin

numeric value to burn the chain while extracting results from the 'HLSM'object. Default is burnin = 0.

thin

numeric value by which the chain is to be thinned while extracting results from the 'HLSM' object. Default is thin = 1.

Value

Returns an object of class "HLSM". It is a list with following components:

draws

list of posterior draws for each parameters.

acc

list of acceptance rates of the parameters.

call

the matched call.

tune

final tuning values

Details

The HLSMfixedEF and HLSMrandomEF functions will not automatically assess thinning and burn-in. To ensure appropriate inference, see HLSMdiag. See also LSM for fitting network data from a single network.

References

Tracy M. Sweet, Andrew C. Thomas and Brian W. Junker (2013), "Hierarchical Network Models for Education Research: Hierarchical Latent Space Models", Journal of Educational and Behavorial Statistics.

Examples

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
library(HLSM)

#Set values for the inputs of the function
priors = NULL
tune = NULL
initialVals = NULL
niter = 10

#Fixed effect HLSM on Pitt and Spillane data 

fixed.fit = HLSMfixedEF(Y = ps.advice.mat, senderCov=ps.node.df,
	initialVals = initialVals,priors = priors,
	tune = tune,tuneIn = FALSE,dd = 2,niter = niter)
summary(fixed.fit)


lsm.fit = LSM(Y=School9Network,edgeCov=School9EdgeCov, 
senderCov=School9NodeCov, receiverCov=School9NodeCov, niter = niter)
names(lsm.fit)

# }

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