HWEBayes (version 1.4)

HWEImportSamp: Importance sampling to calculate the normalizing constant under the single f model

Description

Importance sampling to calculate the normalizing constant under the single $f$ model. Two proposals are available, either sampling from the prior or sampling from a normal distribution whose mean vector and variance-covariance matrix must be specified. The latter may be taken from an MCMC analysis using, for example, WinBUGS. In all cases the likelihood is multinomial and the prior is Dirichlet on the allele frequencies, and normal on $\lambda$ where $\lambda=\log(f-f_{\min})/(1-f))$. See Weir (1996) for a description of HWE and different models/parameterizations.

Usage

HWEImportSamp(nsim, nvec, ischoice, lambdamu, lambdasd, alpha,
gmu = rep(0, length(alpha)), gsigma = diag(0, nrow = length(alpha), 
ncol = length(alpha)))

Arguments

nsim

the number of points to sample to calculate the estimate.

nvec

vector of genotype frequencies in the order $n_{11}, n_{12},..., n_{1k},n_{22} ..., n_{2k},..., n_{kk}$.

ischoice

choice of importance sampling proposal, =1 gives a normal distribution with mean and variance that must be specified (as gmu and gsigma) and =2 is from the prior.

lambdamu

the mean of the prior for $\lambda$.

lambdasd

the variance of the prior for $\lambda$.

alpha

the vector of $k$ parameters for the Dirichlet prior on the allele frequencies.

gmu

the mean of the importance sampling proposal, of length $k$, where $k$ is the number of alleles.

gsigma

the variance of the importance sampling proposal, a matrix of dimension $k \times k$, where $k$ is the number of alleles.

Value

• PrnH1
  the estimate of the normalizing constant
• varest
  the variance of the estimate of the normalizing constant

Warning

As always with importance sampling the procedure can be very unstable, particularly for large $k$. Hence rerunning the function with different simulation sample sizes, and different gmu and gsigma is recommended

References

Wakefield, J. (2010). Bayesian methods for examining Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. Biometrics; Vol 66:257-65

Weir, B.S. (1996). Genetic Data Analysis II. Sunderland MA: Sinauer.

See Also

LambdaOptim, DirichNormSat, DirichNormHWE, TriangNormHWE

Examples

alpha <- c(1,1,1,1) # prior on allele frequencies
# gmu and gsigma were obtained from a WinBUGS run
gmu <- c(-0.4633092,0.3391625,0.3397936,-3.5438008)
gsigma <- matrix(c(
0.07937341,0.02819656,0.02766583,0.04607996,
0.02819656,0.07091320,0.04023827,0.01657028,
0.02766583,0.04023827,0.07042278,0.01752266,
0.04607996,0.01657028,0.01752266,0.57273683),nrow=4,ncol=4)
data(DiabRecess)
HWEImportSamp(nsim=5000,nvec=DiabRecess,ischoice=1,lambdamu=-2.95,
   lambdasd=1.07,alpha=alpha,gmu,gsigma)
HWEImportSamp(nsim=5000,nvec=DiabRecess,ischoice=2,lambdamu=-2.95,
   lambdasd=1.07,alpha=alpha)