dissmfac: Multi-factor ANOVA from a dissimilarity matrix

Description

Perform a multi-factor analysis of variance from a dissimilarity matrix.

Usage

dissmfacw(formula, data, R = 1000, gower = FALSE, squared = FALSE,
    weights = NULL)
dissmfac(formula, data, R = 1000, gower = FALSE, squared = TRUE,
    permutation = "dissmatrix")

Arguments

formula

A regression-like formula. The left hand side term should be a dissimilarity matrix or a dist object.

data

A data frame from which the variables in formula should be taken.

Number of permutations used to assess significance.

gower

Logical: Is the dissimilarity matrix already a Gower matrix?

squared

Logical: Should we square the provided dissimilarities?

weights

Optional numerical vector of case weights.

permutation

Deprecated. Kept for backward compatibility.

Value

A dissmultifactor object with the following components:
mfacThe part of variance explained by each variable (comparing full model to model without the specified variable) and its significance using permutation test
callFunction call
permsPermutation values as a boot object

encoding

latin1

Details

This method is, in some way, a generalization of dissassoc to account for several explanatory variables. The function computes the part of discrepancy explained by the list of covariates specified in the formula. It provides for each covariate the Type-II effect, i.e. the effect measured when removing the covariate from the full model with all variables included. (The returned F values may slightly differ from those obtained with TraMineR versions older than 1.8-9. Since 1.8-9, the within sum of squares at the denominator is divided by $n-m$ instead of $n-m-1$, where $n$ is the sample size and $m$ the total number of predictors and/or contrasts used to represent categorical factors.) For a single factor dissmfac is slower than dissassoc. Moreover, the latter performs also tests for homogeneity in within-group discrepancies (equality of variances) with a generalization of Levene's and Bartlett's statistics. Part of the function is based on the Multivariate Matrix Regression with qr decomposition algorithm written in SciPy-Python by Ondrej Libiger and Matt Zapala (See Zapala and Schork, 2006, for a full reference.) The algorithm has been adapted for Type-II effects and extended to account for case weights.

References

Studer, M., G. Ritschard, A. Gabadinho and N. S. M�ller (2011). Discrepancy analysis of state sequences, Sociological Methods and Research, Vol. 40(3), 471-510. Studer, M., G. Ritschard, A. Gabadinho and N. S. M�ller (2010) Discrepancy analysis of complex objects using dissimilarities. In F. Guillet, G. Ritschard, D. A. Zighed and H. Briand (Eds.), Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Management, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Volume 292, pp. 3-19. Berlin: Springer. Studer, M., G. Ritschard, A. Gabadinho and N. S. M�ller (2009). Analyse de dissimilarit�s par arbre d'induction. In EGC 2009, Revue des Nouvelles Technologies de l'Information, Vol. E-15, pp. 7-18. Anderson, M. J. (2001). A new method for non-parametric multivariate analysis of variance. Austral Ecology 26, 32-46. McArdle, B. H. and M. J. Anderson (2001). Fitting multivariate models to community data: A comment on distance-based redundancy analysis. Ecology 82(1), 290-297. Zapala, M. A. and N. J. Schork (2006). Multivariate regression analysis of distance matrices for testing associations between gene expression patterns and related variables. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103(51), 19430-19435.

Examples

Run this code

## Define the state sequence object
data(mvad)
mvad.seq <- seqdef(mvad[, 17:86])

## Compute dissimilarities (any dissimilarity measure can be used)
mvad.ham <- seqdist(mvad.seq, method="HAM")

## And now the multi-factor analysis
print(dissmfac(mvad.ham ~ male + Grammar + funemp +
	gcse5eq + fmpr + livboth, data=mvad, R=10))

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