an optional integer vector specifying which variables
assume categorical values. Positive values in cat refer
to columns of the x matrix and zero to the response
variable. Variables must be numeric, so a character variable
should first be transformed with as.numeric() and then specified
as categorical.
mon
an optional integer vector specifying which variables are
to be transformed by monotone transformations. Positive values
in mon refer to columns of the x matrix and zero
to the response variable.
lin
an optional integer vector specifying which variables are
to be transformed by linear transformations. Positive values in
lin refer to columns of the x matrix and zero to
the response variable.
circ
an integer vector specifying which variables assume
circular (periodic) values. Positive values in circ
refer to columns of the x matrix and zero to the response
variable.
delrsq
termination threshold. Iteration stops when R-squared
changes by less than delrsq in 3 consecutive iterations
(default 0.01).
yspan
Optional window size parameter for smoothing the
variance. Range is [0,1]. Default is 0 (cross validated
choice). .5 is a reasonable alternative to try.
Value
A structure with the following components:
x
the input x matrix.
y
the input y vector.
tx
the transformed x values.
ty
the transformed y values.
rsq
the multiple R-squared value for the transformed values.
l
the codes for cat, mon, ...
m
not used in this version of avas
yspan
span used for smoothing the variance
iters
iteration number and rsq for that iteration
niters
number of iterations used
References
Rob Tibshirani (1987),
“Estimating optimal transformations for regression”.
Journal of the American Statistical Association83,
394ff.
Examples
TWOPI <- 8*atan(1)
x <- runif(200,0,TWOPI)
y <- exp(sin(x)+rnorm(200)/2)
a <- avas(x,y)
par(mfrow=c(3,1))
plot(a$y,a$ty) # view the response transformation
plot(a$x,a$tx) # view the carrier transformation
plot(a$tx,a$ty) # examine the linearity of the fitted model
# From D. Wang and M. Murphy (2005), Identifying nonlinear relationships
# regression using the ACE algorithm. Journal of Applied Statistics,
# 32, 243-258, adapted for avas.
X1 <- runif(100)*2-1
X2 <- runif(100)*2-1
X3 <- runif(100)*2-1
X4 <- runif(100)*2-1
# Original equation of Y:
Y <- log(4 + sin(3*X1) + abs(X2) + X3^2 + X4 + .1*rnorm(100))
# Transformed version so that Y, after transformation, is a
# linear function of transforms of the X variables:
# exp(Y) = 4 + sin(3*X1) + abs(X2) + X3^2 + X4
a1 <- avas(cbind(X1,X2,X3,X4),Y)
par(mfrow=c(2,1))
# For each variable, show its transform as a function of
# the original variable and the of the transform that created it,
# showing that the transform is recovered.
plot(X1,a1$tx[,1])
plot(sin(3*X1),a1$tx[,1])
plot(X2,a1$tx[,2])
plot(abs(X2),a1$tx[,2])
plot(X3,a1$tx[,3])
plot(X3^2,a1$tx[,3])
plot(X4,a1$tx[,4])
plot(X4,a1$tx[,4])
plot(Y,a1$ty)
plot(exp(Y),a1$ty)