biglm (version 0.9-2.1)

bigglm: Bounded memory linear regression

Description

bigglm creates a generalized linear model object that uses only p^2 memory for p variables.

Usage

bigglm(formula, data, family=gaussian(),...)
# S3 method for data.frame
bigglm(formula, data,...,chunksize=5000)
# S3 method for function
bigglm(formula, data, family=gaussian(),
     weights=NULL, sandwich=FALSE, maxit=8, tolerance=1e-7,
     start=NULL,quiet=FALSE,...)
# S3 method for RODBC
bigglm(formula, data, family=gaussian(),
      tablename, ..., chunksize=5000)
# S4 method for ANY,DBIConnection
bigglm(formula, data, family=gaussian(),
tablename, ..., chunksize=5000)
# S3 method for bigglm
vcov(object,dispersion=NULL, ...)
# S3 method for bigglm
deviance(object,...)
# S3 method for bigglm
family(object,...)
# S3 method for bigglm
AIC(object,...,k=2)

Arguments

formula

A model formula

data

See Details below. Method dispatch is on this argument

family

A glm family object

chunksize

Size of chunks for processng the data frame

weights

A one-sided, single term formula specifying weights

sandwich

TRUE to compute the Huber/White sandwich covariance matrix (uses p^4 memory rather than p^2)

maxit

Maximum number of Fisher scoring iterations

tolerance

Tolerance for change in coefficient (as multiple of standard error)

start

Optional starting values for coefficients. If NULL, maxit should be at least 2 as some quantities will not be computed on the first iteration

object

A bigglm object

dispersion

Dispersion parameter, or NULL to estimate

tablename

For the SQLiteConnection method, the name of a SQL table, or a string specifying a join or nested select

k

penalty per parameter for AIC

quiet

When FALSE, warn if the fit did not converge

...

Additional arguments

Value

An object of class bigglm

Details

The data argument may be a function, a data frame, or a SQLiteConnection or RODBC connection object.

When it is a function the function must take a single argument reset. When this argument is FALSE it returns a data frame with the next chunk of data or NULL if no more data are available. Whenreset=TRUE it indicates that the data should be reread from the beginning by subsequent calls. The chunks need not be the same size or in the same order when the data are reread, but the same data must be provided in total. The bigglm.data.frame method gives an example of how such a function might be written, another is in the Examples below.

The model formula must not contain any data-dependent terms, as these will not be consistent when updated. Factors are permitted, but the levels of the factor must be the same across all data chunks (empty factor levels are ok). Offsets are allowed (since version 0.8).

The SQLiteConnection and RODBC methods loads only the variables needed for the model, not the whole table. The code in the SQLiteConnection method should work for other DBI connections, but I do not have any of these to check it with.

References

Algorithm AS274 Applied Statistics (1992) Vol.41, No. 2

See Also

biglm, glm

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(trees)
ff<-log(Volume)~log(Girth)+log(Height)
a <- bigglm(ff,data=trees, chunksize=10, sandwich=TRUE)
summary(a)

gg<-log(Volume)~log(Girth)+log(Height)+offset(2*log(Girth)+log(Height))
b <- bigglm(gg,data=trees, chunksize=10, sandwich=TRUE)
summary(b)

# }
# NOT RUN {
## requires internet access
make.data<-function(urlname, chunksize,...){
      conn<-NULL
     function(reset=FALSE){
     if(reset){
       if(!is.null(conn)) close(conn)
       conn<<-url(urlname,open="r")
     } else{
       rval<-read.table(conn, nrows=chunksize,...)
       if (nrow(rval)==0) {
            close(conn)
            conn<<-NULL
            rval<-NULL
       }
       return(rval)
     }
  }
}

airpoll<-make.data("http://faculty.washington.edu/tlumley/NO2.dat",
        chunksize=150,
        col.names=c("logno2","logcars","temp","windsp",
                    "tempgrad","winddir","hour","day"))

b<-bigglm(exp(logno2)~logcars+temp+windsp,
         data=airpoll, family=Gamma(log),
         start=c(2,0,0,0),maxit=10)
summary(b)         
# }