VGAM (version 1.1-1)

cumulative: Ordinal Regression with Cumulative Probabilities

Description

Fits a cumulative link regression model to a (preferably ordered) factor response.

Usage

cumulative(link = "logitlink", parallel = FALSE, reverse = FALSE,
           multiple.responses = FALSE, whitespace = FALSE)

Arguments

link

Link function applied to the \(J\) cumulative probabilities. See Links for more choices, e.g., for the cumulative probitlink/clogloglink/cauchitlink/… models.

parallel

A logical or formula specifying which terms have equal/unequal coefficients. See below for more information about the parallelism assumption. The default results in what some people call the generalized ordered logit model to be fitted. If parallel = TRUE then it does not apply to the intercept.

The partial proportional odds model can be fitted by assigning this argument something like parallel = TRUE ~ -1 + x3 + x5 so that there is one regression coefficient for x3 and x5. Equivalently, setting parallel = FALSE ~ 1 + x2 + x4 means \(M\) regression coefficients for the intercept and x2 and x4. It is important that the intercept is never parallel.

reverse

Logical. By default, the cumulative probabilities used are \(P(Y\leq 1)\), \(P(Y\leq 2)\), …, \(P(Y\leq J)\). If reverse is TRUE then \(P(Y\geq 2)\), \(P(Y\geq 3)\), …, \(P(Y\geq J+1)\) are used.

This should be set to TRUE for link= gordlink, pordlink, nbordlink. For these links the cutpoints must be an increasing sequence; if reverse = FALSE for then the cutpoints must be an decreasing sequence.

multiple.responses

Logical. Multiple responses? If TRUE then the input should be a matrix with values \(1,2,\dots,L\), where \(L=J+1\) is the number of levels. Each column of the matrix is a response, i.e., multiple responses. A suitable matrix can be obtained from Cut.

whitespace

See CommonVGAMffArguments for information.

Value

An object of class "vglmff" (see vglmff-class). The object is used by modelling functions such as vglm, and vgam.

Warning

No check is made to verify that the response is ordinal if the response is a matrix; see ordered.

Details

In this help file the response \(Y\) is assumed to be a factor with ordered values \(1,2,\dots,J+1\). Hence \(M\) is the number of linear/additive predictors \(\eta_j\); for cumulative() one has \(M=J\).

This VGAM family function fits the class of cumulative link models to (hopefully) an ordinal response. By default, the non-parallel cumulative logit model is fitted, i.e., $$\eta_j = logit(P[Y \leq j])$$ where \(j=1,2,\dots,M\) and the \(\eta_j\) are not constrained to be parallel. This is also known as the non-proportional odds model. If the logit link is replaced by a complementary log-log link (clogloglink) then this is known as the proportional-hazards model.

In almost all the literature, the constraint matrices associated with this family of models are known. For example, setting parallel = TRUE will make all constraint matrices (except for the intercept) equal to a vector of \(M\) 1's. If the constraint matrices are equal, unknown and to be estimated, then this can be achieved by fitting the model as a reduced-rank vector generalized linear model (RR-VGLM; see rrvglm). Currently, reduced-rank vector generalized additive models (RR-VGAMs) have not been implemented here.

References

Agresti, A. (2013) Categorical Data Analysis, 3rd ed. Hoboken, NJ, USA: Wiley.

Agresti, A. (2010) Analysis of Ordinal Categorical Data, 2nd ed. Hoboken, NJ, USA: Wiley.

Dobson, A. J. and Barnett, A. (2008) An Introduction to Generalized Linear Models, 3rd ed. Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall/CRC Press.

McCullagh, P. and Nelder, J. A. (1989) Generalized Linear Models, 2nd ed. London: Chapman & Hall.

Simonoff, J. S. (2003) Analyzing Categorical Data, New York: Springer-Verlag.

Yee, T. W. (2010) The VGAM package for categorical data analysis. Journal of Statistical Software, 32, 1--34. http://www.jstatsoft.org/v32/i10/.

Yee, T. W. and Wild, C. J. (1996) Vector generalized additive models. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, Methodological, 58, 481--493.

See Also

propodds, R2latvar, ordsup, prplot, margeff, acat, cratio, sratio, multinomial, pneumo, Links, hdeff.vglm, logitlink, probitlink, clogloglink, cauchitlink, gordlink, pordlink, nbordlink, logistic1.

Examples

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
# Fit the proportional odds model, p.179, in McCullagh and Nelder (1989)
pneumo <- transform(pneumo, let = log(exposure.time))
(fit <- vglm(cbind(normal, mild, severe) ~ let,
             cumulative(parallel = TRUE, reverse = TRUE), data = pneumo))
depvar(fit)  # Sample proportions (good technique)
fit@y        # Sample proportions (bad technique)
weights(fit, type = "prior")  # Number of observations
coef(fit, matrix = TRUE)
constraints(fit)  # Constraint matrices
apply(fitted(fit), 1, which.max)  # Classification
apply(predict(fit, newdata = pneumo, type = "response"),
      1, which.max)  # Classification
R2latvar(fit)

# Check that the model is linear in let ----------------------
fit2 <- vgam(cbind(normal, mild, severe) ~ s(let, df = 2),
             cumulative(reverse = TRUE), data = pneumo)
# }
# NOT RUN {
 plot(fit2, se = TRUE, overlay = TRUE, lcol = 1:2, scol = 1:2) 
# }
# NOT RUN {
# Check the proportional odds assumption with a LRT ----------
(fit3 <- vglm(cbind(normal, mild, severe) ~ let,
              cumulative(parallel = FALSE, reverse = TRUE), data = pneumo))
pchisq(2 * (logLik(fit3) - logLik(fit)),
       df = length(coef(fit3)) - length(coef(fit)), lower.tail = FALSE)
lrtest(fit3, fit)  # More elegant

# A factor() version of fit ----------------------------------
# This is in long format (cf. wide format above)
Nobs <- round(depvar(fit) * c(weights(fit, type = "prior")))
sumNobs <- colSums(Nobs)  # apply(Nobs, 2, sum)

pneumo.long <-
  data.frame(symptoms = ordered(rep(rep(colnames(Nobs), nrow(Nobs)),
                                        times = c(t(Nobs))),
                                levels = colnames(Nobs)),
             let = rep(rep(with(pneumo, let), each = ncol(Nobs)),
                       times = c(t(Nobs))))
with(pneumo.long, table(let, symptoms))  # Should be same as pneumo


(fit.long1 <- vglm(symptoms ~ let, data = pneumo.long, trace = TRUE,
                   cumulative(parallel = TRUE, reverse = TRUE)))
coef(fit.long1, matrix = TRUE)  # Should be as coef(fit, matrix = TRUE)
# Could try using mustart if fit.long1 failed to converge.
mymustart <- matrix(sumNobs / sum(sumNobs),
                    nrow(pneumo.long), ncol(Nobs), byrow = TRUE)
fit.long2 <- vglm(symptoms ~ let, mustart = mymustart,
                  cumulative(parallel = TRUE, reverse = TRUE),
                  data = pneumo.long, trace = TRUE)
coef(fit.long2, matrix = TRUE)  # Should be as coef(fit, matrix = TRUE)
# }

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