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summary.topics: topic summary

Description

Summary function for Topic Models

Usage

## S3 method for class 'topics':
summary( object, nwrd=5, tpk=NULL, ... )

Arguments

object
An output object from the topics function.
nwrd
The number of phrases to output for each topic.
tpk
Optional list of topics to summarize. Defaults to 1:x$K.
...
Unused arguments from other functions, for S3 compatibility.

Value

  • The function prints usage percentages (i.e. colMeans(omega)) along with the top nwrd phrases by log odds for each topic in tpk. The matrix of to nwrd phrases is returned invisibly.

Details

This summary orders phrases for each topic according to the log odds $\log(\theta_{kj}/q_{j})$, where $q_j$ is the null-model probability estimate $\sum_i x_{ij} / \sum_{i} m_i$. This natural ordering of term relevance can be used to identify representative vocabulary for each topic.

References

Taddy (2011), Estimation of Topic Models.

See Also

topics, plot.topics, we8there, congress109, wsjibm