--- title: "A-quick-tour-of-SNMoE" output: rmarkdown::html_vignette vignette: > %\VignetteIndexEntry{A-quick-tour-of-SNMoE} %\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown} %\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8} --- ```{r setup, include=FALSE} library(knitr) knitr::opts_chunk$set( fig.align = "center", fig.height = 5.5, fig.width = 6, warning = FALSE, collapse = TRUE, dev.args = list(pointsize = 10), out.width = "90%", par = TRUE ) knit_hooks$set(par = function(before, options, envir) { if (before && options$fig.show != "none") par(family = "sans", mar = c(4.1,4.1,1.1,1.1), mgp = c(3,1,0), tcl = -0.5) }) ``` ```{r, message = FALSE, echo = FALSE} library(meteorits) ``` # Introduction **SNMoE** (Skew-Normal Mixtures-of-Experts) provides a flexible modelling framework for heterogenous data with possibly skewed distributions to generalize the standard Normal mixture of expert model. **SNMoE** consists of a mixture of *K* skew-Normal expert regressors network (of degree *p*) gated by a softmax gating network (of degree *q*) and is represented by: * The gating network parameters `alpha`'s of the softmax net. * The experts network parameters: The location parameters (regression coefficients) `beta`'s, scale parameters `sigma`'s, and the skewness parameters `lambda`'s. **SNMoE** thus generalises mixtures of (normal, skew-normal) distributions and mixtures of regressions with these distributions. For example, when $q=0$, we retrieve mixtures of (skew-normal, or normal) regressions, and when both $p=0$ and $q=0$, it is a mixture of (skew-normal, or normal) distributions. It also reduces to the standard (normal, skew-normal) distribution when we only use a single expert ($K=1$). Model estimation/learning is performed by a dedicated expectation conditional maximization (ECM) algorithm by maximizing the observed data log-likelihood. We provide simulated examples to illustrate the use of the model in model-based clustering of heterogeneous regression data and in fitting non-linear regression functions. It was written in R Markdown, using the [knitr](https://cran.r-project.org/package=knitr) package for production. See `help(package="meteorits")` for further details and references provided by `citation("meteorits")`. # Application to a simulated dataset ## Generate sample ```{r} n <- 500 # Size of the sample alphak <- matrix(c(0, 8), ncol = 1) # Parameters of the gating network betak <- matrix(c(0, -2.5, 0, 2.5), ncol = 2) # Regression coefficients of the experts lambdak <- c(3, 5) # Skewness parameters of the experts sigmak <- c(1, 1) # Standard deviations of the experts x <- seq.int(from = -1, to = 1, length.out = n) # Inputs (predictors) # Generate sample of size n sample <- sampleUnivSNMoE(alphak = alphak, betak = betak, sigmak = sigmak, lambdak = lambdak, x = x) y <- sample$y ``` ## Set up SNMoE model parameters ```{r} K <- 2 # Number of regressors/experts p <- 1 # Order of the polynomial regression (regressors/experts) q <- 1 # Order of the logistic regression (gating network) ``` ## Set up EM parameters ```{r} n_tries <- 1 max_iter <- 1500 threshold <- 1e-6 verbose <- TRUE verbose_IRLS <- FALSE ``` ## Estimation ```{r} snmoe <- emSNMoE(X = x, Y = y, K, p, q, n_tries, max_iter, threshold, verbose, verbose_IRLS) ``` ## Summary ```{r} snmoe$summary() ``` ## Plots ### Mean curve ```{r} snmoe$plot(what = "meancurve") ``` ### Confidence regions ```{r} snmoe$plot(what = "confregions") ``` ### Clusters ```{r} snmoe$plot(what = "clusters") ``` ### Log-likelihood ```{r} snmoe$plot(what = "loglikelihood") ``` # Application to a real dataset ## Load data ```{r} data("tempanomalies") x <- tempanomalies$Year y <- tempanomalies$AnnualAnomaly ``` ## Set up SNMoE model parameters ```{r} K <- 2 # Number of regressors/experts p <- 1 # Order of the polynomial regression (regressors/experts) q <- 1 # Order of the logistic regression (gating network) ``` ## Set up EM parameters ```{r} n_tries <- 1 max_iter <- 1500 threshold <- 1e-6 verbose <- TRUE verbose_IRLS <- FALSE ``` ## Estimation ```{r} snmoe <- emSNMoE(X = x, Y = y, K, p, q, n_tries, max_iter, threshold, verbose, verbose_IRLS) ``` ## Summary ```{r} snmoe$summary() ``` ## Plots ### Mean curve ```{r} snmoe$plot(what = "meancurve") ``` ### Confidence regions ```{r} snmoe$plot(what = "confregions") ``` ### Clusters ```{r} snmoe$plot(what = "clusters") ``` ### Log-likelihood ```{r} snmoe$plot(what = "loglikelihood") ```