coef.bma {BMS} | R Documentation |
Returns a matrix with aggregate covariate-specific Bayesian model Averaging: posterior inclusion probabilites (PIP), post. expected values and standard deviations of coefficients, as well as sign probabilites
## S3 method for class 'bma' coef(object, exact = FALSE, order.by.pip = TRUE, include.constant = FALSE, incl.possign = TRUE, std.coefs = FALSE, condi.coef = FALSE, ...) #equivalent: estimates.bma(object, exact = FALSE, order.by.pip = TRUE, include.constant = FALSE, incl.possign = TRUE, std.coefs = FALSE, condi.coef = FALSE)
object |
a 'bma' object (cf. |
exact |
if |
order.by.pip |
|
include.constant |
If |
incl.possign |
If |
std.coefs |
If |
condi.coef |
If |
... |
further arguments for other |
More on the argument exact
:
In case the argument exact=TRUE
, the PIPs, coefficient statistics and conditional sign probabilities are computed on the basis of the (500) best models the sampling chain encountered (cf. argument nmodel
in bms
). Here, the weights for Bayesian model averaging (BMA) are the posterior marginal likelihoods of these best models.
In case exact=FALSE
, then these statistics are based on all accepted models (except burn-ins): If mcmc="enumerate"
then this are simply all models of the traversed model space, with their marginal likelihoods providing the weights for BMA.
If, however, the bma object bmao
was based on an MCMC sampler (e.g. when bms
argument mcmc="bd"
), then BMA statistics are computed differently: In contrast to above, the weights for BMA are MCMC frequencies, i.e. how often the respective models were encountered by the MCMC sampler. (cf. a comparison of MCMC frequencies and marginal likelihoods for the best models via the function pmp.bma
).
A matrix with five columns (or four if incl.possign=FALSE
)
Column 'PIP' |
Posterior inclusion probabilities ∑ p(γ|i \in γ, Y) / sum p(γ|Y) |
Column 'Post Mean' |
posterior expected value of coefficients, unconditional E(β|Y)=∑ p(γ|Y) E(β|γ,Y), where E(β_i|γ,i \notin γ, Y)=0 if |
Column 'Post SD' |
posterior standard deviation of coefficients, unconditional or conditional on inclusion, depending on |
Column 'Cond.Pos.Sign' |
The ratio of how often the coefficients' expected values were positive conditional on inclusion. (over all visited models in case |
Column 'Idx' |
the original order of covariates as the were used for sampling. (if included, the constant has index 0) |
Martin Feldkircher and Stefan Zeugner
bms
for creating bma objects, pmp.bma
for comparing MCMC frequencies and marginal likelihoods.
Check http://bms.zeugner.eu for additional help.
#sample, with keeping the best 200 models: data(datafls) mm=bms(datafls,burn=1000,iter=5000,nmodel=200) #standard BMA PIPs and coefficients from the MCMC sampling chain, based on # ...how frequently the models were drawn coef(mm) #standardized coefficients, ordered by index coef(mm,std.coefs=TRUE,order.by.pip=FALSE) #coefficients conditional on inclusion: coef(mm,condi.coef=TRUE) #same as ests=coef(mm,condi.coef=FALSE) ests[,2]/ests[,1] #PIPs, coefficients, and signs based on the best 200 models estimates.bma(mm,exact=TRUE) #... and based on the 50 best models coef(mm[1:50],exact=TRUE)