Family functions for the VGAM package
Objects can be created by calls of the form new("vglmff", ...).
In the following, \(M\) is the number of linear/additive predictors.
blurb:Object of class "character" giving
a small description of the model. Important arguments such as
parameter link functions can be expressed here.
charfun:Object of class "function" which
returns the characteristic function
or variance function (usually for some GLMs only).
The former uses a dummy variable x.
Both use the linear/additive predictors.
The function must have arguments
function(x, eta, extra = NULL, varfun = FALSE).
The eta and extra arguments are used to obtain
the parameter values.
If varfun = TRUE then the function returns the
variance function, else the characteristic function (default).
Note that
one should check that the infos slot has a list component
called charfun which is TRUE before attempting to
use this slot.
This is an easier way to test that this slot is operable.
constraints:Object of class "expression"
which sets up any constraint matrices defined by arguments in the
family function. A zero argument is always fed into
cm.zero.vgam, whereas other constraints are fed into
cm.vgam.
deviance:Object of class "function"
returning the deviance of the model. This slot is optional.
If present, the function must have arguments
function(mu, y, w, residuals = FALSE, eta, extra = NULL).
Deviance residuals are returned if residuals = TRUE.
rqresslot:Object of class "function"
returning the randomized quantile residuals of the distibution.
This slot is optional.
If present, the function must have arguments
function(mu, y, w, eta, extra = NULL).
fini:Object of class "expression" to insert
code at a special position in vglm.fit or
vgam.fit.
This code is evaluated immediately after the fitting.
first:Object of class "expression" to insert
code at a special position in vglm or
vgam.
infos:Object of class "function" which
returns a list with components such as M1.
At present only a very few VGAM family functions have this
feature implemented.
Those that do do not require specifying the M1
argument when used with rcim.
initialize:Object of class "expression" used
to perform error checking (especially for the variable y)
and obtain starting values for the model.
In general, etastart or
mustart are assigned values based on the variables y,
x and w.
linkinv:Object of class "function" which
returns the fitted values, given the linear/additive predictors.
The function must have arguments
function(eta, extra = NULL).
last:Object of class "expression" to insert code at a
special position (at the very end) of vglm.fit()
or vgam.fit().
This code is evaluated after the fitting.
The list misc is often assigned components in this slot,
which becomes the misc slot on the fitted object.
linkfun:Object of class "function" which,
given the fitted values, returns the linear/additive predictors.
If present, the function must have arguments
function(mu, extra = NULL).
Most VGAM family functions do not have
a linkfun function. They largely are for
classical exponential families, i.e., GLMs.
loglikelihood:Object of class "function"
returning the log-likelihood of the model. This slot is optional.
If present, the function must have arguments
function(mu, y, w, residuals = FALSE, eta, extra = NULL).
The argument residuals can be ignored because
log-likelihood residuals aren't defined.
middle:Object of class "expression" to insert
code at a special position in vglm.fit or
vgam.fit.
middle2:Object of class "expression" to insert
code at a special position in vglm.fit or
vgam.fit.
simslot:Object of class "function" to allow
simulate to work.
hadof:Object of class "function";
experimental.
summary.dispersion:Object of class "logical"
indicating whether the general VGLM formula (based on a residual
sum of squares) can be used for computing the scaling/dispersion
parameter. It is TRUE for most models except for nonlinear
regression models.
vfamily:Object of class "character"
giving class information about the family function. Although
not developed at this stage, more flexible classes are planned
in the future. For example, family functions
sratio, cratio,
cumulative, and acat
all operate on categorical data, therefore will have a special class
called "VGAMcat", say. Then if fit was
a vglm object, then coef(fit) would print
out the vglm coefficients plus "VGAMcat"
information as well.
deriv:Object of class "expression" which
returns a \(M\)-column matrix of first derivatives of the
log-likelihood function
with respect to the linear/additive predictors, i.e., the
score vector. In Yee and Wild (1996) this is the
\(\bold{d}_i\) vector. Thus each row of the
matrix returned by this slot is such a vector.
weight:Object of class "expression" which
returns the second derivatives of the log-likelihood function
with respect to the linear/additive predictors.
This can be either the observed or expected information matrix, i.e.,
Newton-Raphson or Fisher-scoring respectively.
In Yee and Wild (1996) this is the
\(\bold{W}_i\) matrix. Thus each row of the
matrix returned by this slot is such a matrix.
Like the weights slot of vglm/vgam, it is
stored in
matrix-band form, whereby the first \(M\)
columns of the matrix are the
diagonals, followed by the upper-diagonal band, followed by the
band above that, etc. In this case, there can be up to \(M(M+1)\)
columns, with the last column corresponding to the (1,\(M\)) elements
of the weight matrices.
validfitted, validparams:Functions that test that the fitted values and all parameters are within range. These functions can issue a warning if violations are detected.
signature(x = "vglmff"):
short summary of the family function.
Thomas W. Yee
VGAM family functions are not compatible with
glm, nor gam()
(from either gam or mgcv).
Yee, T. W. and Wild, C. J. (1996). Vector generalized additive models. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, Methodological, 58, 481--493.
vglm,
vgam,
rrvglm,
rcim.
cratio()
cratio(link = "clogloglink")
cratio(link = "clogloglink", reverse = TRUE)
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