ssvd (version 1.0)

ssvd.initial: This function is used to initialize the sparse SVD iterative method.

Description

This function is used to initialize the sparse SVD iterative method. The function selects some rows and columns of the input matrix and perform regular SVD of the reduced the matrix with only selected rows and columns, which gives an initial solution to the sparse SVD problem.

Usage

ssvd.initial(x, method = c("theory", "method"), alpha.method = 0.05, 
alpha.theory = 1.5, huber.beta = 0.95, sigma = NA, r = 1)

Arguments

x

Input matrix, for which one would like to get a sparse SVD.

method

If method = "theory", then a theoretical procedure is adopted which is based on normal assumption on the noise. If method = "method", then the function bypass the normal assumption by some robust statistics. These two choices typically give similar solutions, but "theory" is much faster.

alpha.method

Alpha.method is the level of the hypothesis test when one performs Holm multiple hypothesis testing, which is used to select the candidate rows and columns. The value is usually set to be 0.05.

alpha.theory

Alpha.theory is a scaler that is used when normal assumption is true, method="theory", and a chisq tail bound is used to select the candidate rows and columns. Most of the time, users should keep it as it is.

huber.beta

Huber.beta is a scaler which is the cut-off point in the Huber function. The huberization is utilized to achieve robustness when normal assumption is violated.

sigma

Sigma is a scaler for the noise level. The user can set it to be NA, and the function will estimate it automatically.

r

A scaler, the number of components, i.e., the number of singular vectors to be computed.

Value

u

A matrix containing left singular vectors

v

A matrix containing right singular vectors

d

A vector containing singular values

sigma.hat

An estimate of the noise level

References

A Sparse SVD Method for High-dimensional Data

Examples

ssvd.initial(matrix(rnorm(2^15),2^7,2^8), method = "method")