CNVtools (version 1.66.0)

CNVtest.select.model: Select number of components in a CNV

Description

This function fits mixtures of Gaussians to Copy Number Variant data, and uses the Bayesian Information Criteria (BIC) to select the most likely number of components.

Usage

CNVtest.select.model(signal, batch, sample = NULL, n.H0 = 3, 
		     method="BIC",
		     v.ncomp = 1:6, v.model.component = rep('gaussian',6), v.model.mean = rep("~ strata(cn)",6), v.model.var = rep("~1", 6),
		     control=list(tol=1e-5, max.iter = 500, min.freq=4) )

Arguments

signal

The vector of intensity values, meant to be a proxy for the number of copies.

batch

Factor, that describes how the data points should be separated in batches, corresponding to different tehnologies to measure the number of DNA copies, or maybe different cohorts in a case control framework.

sample

Character vector containing a name for each data point, typically the name of the individuals.

n.H0

Number of times the EM should be used to maximize the likelihood and calculate the BIC for each different model.

v.ncomp

Model specification. Numeric vector specifying number of components to attempt. See discussion.

v.model.component

Character vector defining the mixture model. Can either be 'T' or 'gaussian'.

v.model.mean

Model specification. Character vector specifying different models for the component means. See discussion.

v.model.var

Model specification. Character vector specifying different models for the component means. See discussion.

method

Either BIC or AIC

control

A list of parameters that control the behavior of the fitting.

Value

A data structure containing information from the fitting of the different models specified.

model

A list (length = number of model fit) containing the models specified by the user.

BIC

A vector (length = number of model fit) containing the BIC values for each model.

AIC

A vector (length = number of model fit) containing the AIC values for each model.

status

A vector (length = number of model fit) containing the status of every fit of every model.

np

A vector (length = number of model fit) containing the number of parameters of each model.

posteriors

A list (length = number of model fit) containing the best posterior distribution number of each model.

selected

The number of the best model. This will be the model that has the lowest BIC or AIC depending on which method was specified.

Details

The function fits the different models, specified by the vectors v.ncomp, v.model.mean, v.model.var, to the data contained in signal. The lengths of v.ncomp, v.model.mean, v.model.var must be equal. The function iterates through the length of these vectors and fits the models n.H0 times, keeping the fit with the highest likelihood. The BIC and AIC is calculated for each model, the lowest BIC/AIC indicates the 'best' model. In the default model specification, first the data is fit with 1 component, mean model = "~ 1" and variance model = "~ 1". Next the data is fit with 2 components, mean model = "~ as.factor(cn)" and variance model "~ 1" etc.

References

Schwarz, G. (1978) "Estimating the Dimension of a Model", Annals of Statistics, 6, 461-464.

Examples

	#Load data for CNV for two control cohorts 
	data(A112)
	raw.signal <- as.matrix(A112[, -c(1,2)])
	dimnames(raw.signal)[[1]] <- A112$subject

	#Extract CNV signal using principal components
	pca.signal <- apply.pca(raw.signal)

	#Extract batch, sample and trait information
 	batches <- factor(A112$cohort)
	sample <- factor(A112$subject)
	
	results <- CNVtest.select.model(signal = pca.signal, batch = batches, 
	      	 		        sample = sample, n.H0 = 3)

        # Best model - with the default model setting this is also
	# the number of components
	best_model <- results$selected

	# Look at the fit
	cnv.plot( results[['posteriors']][[best_model]] )