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R
.library(mgcv)
#> Loading required package: nlme
#>
#> Attaching package: 'nlme'
#> The following object is masked from 'package:lme4':
#>
#> lmList
#> This is mgcv 1.9-0. For overview type 'help("mgcv-package")'.
library(ecostats)
data(maunaloa)
maunaJan = maunaloa[maunaloa$month==1,]
ft_maunagam=gam(co2~s(year), data=maunaJan)
summary(ft_maunagam)
#>
#> Family: gaussian
#> Link function: identity
#>
#> Formula:
#> co2 ~ s(year)
#>
#> Parametric coefficients:
#> Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
#> (Intercept) 356.68048 0.05378 6632 <2e-16 ***
#> ---
#> Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
#>
#> Approximate significance of smooth terms:
#> edf Ref.df F p-value
#> s(year) 8.427 8.908 33847 <2e-16 ***
#> ---
#> Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
#>
#> R-sq.(adj) = 1 Deviance explained = 100%
#> GCV = 0.2143 Scale est. = 0.18223 n = 63
Do you think assumptions are satisfied?
It generally looks good, although there are a couple of lines of
points fanning out on the residuals vs fits plot for
co2<320
. (The method of taking measurements actually
changed in 1974, at about co2=330
, so it is possible that
this could be artefacts due to changes in the measurement or recording
process for data in the 1950’s and 1960’s.)
Note the simulation envelope around the trend line in the residual vs fits plot is hard to see – this is because it falls very close to the horizontal line at zero. This happens because of the way the smoother against year is fitted – it is done in such a way that the residual trend is (nearly) completely removed.
maunaJan$year00 = pmax(2000,maunaJan$year)
ft_maunaPiece = lm(co2~year+year00,data=maunaJan)
ft_maunagam20 = gam(co2~s(year,k=20), data=maunaJan)
summary(ft_maunagam20)$edf # this gam added about 6 extra knots:
#> [1] 15.01983
BIC(ft_maunaPiece,ft_maunagam,ft_maunagam20)
#> df BIC
#> ft_maunaPiece 4.00000 252.2672
#> ft_maunagam 10.42712 104.5190
#> ft_maunagam20 17.01983 104.7728
isTrain = which(maunaJan$year<=2006)
datTrain = maunaJan[isTrain,]
datTest = maunaJan[-isTrain,]
ft_piece = lm(co2~year+year00,dat=datTrain)
ft_gam = gam(co2~s(year),dat=datTrain)
ft_gam20 = gam(co2~s(year,k=20),dat=datTrain)
pr_piece = predict(ft_piece,newdata=datTest)
pr_gam = predict(ft_gam,newdata=datTest)
pr_gam20 = predict(ft_gam20,newdata=datTest)
preds = cbind( predict(ft_piece,newdata=datTest),
predict(ft_gam,newdata=datTest), predict(ft_gam20,newdata=datTest) )
print( apply((datTest$co2-preds)^2,2,sum)) # getting SS by column
#> [1] 233.36905 99.43189 15.72148
How does species richness vary from one area to the next, and what are the main environmental correlates of richness? [Ian] thinks species richness could respond to temperature and rainfall in a non-linear fashion, and may interact. What sort of model should Ian consider using?
He could try a GAM, as in Code Box 8.4. Note that this doesn’t allow
him to account for spatial autocorrelation at the same time, maybe he
could try gamm
as a way forward.
data(Myrtaceae)
ft_tmprain=gam(log(richness+1)~te(TMP_MIN,RAIN_ANN),data=Myrtaceae)
vis.gam(ft_tmprain,theta=-135) #rotating the plot to find a nice view
ft_tmprain2=gam(log(richness+1)~s(TMP_MIN)+s(RAIN_ANN)+TMP_MIN*RAIN_ANN,
data=Myrtaceae)
summary(ft_tmprain2)
#>
#> Family: gaussian
#> Link function: identity
#>
#> Formula:
#> log(richness + 1) ~ s(TMP_MIN) + s(RAIN_ANN) + TMP_MIN * RAIN_ANN
#>
#> Parametric coefficients:
#> Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
#> (Intercept) 6.970e-02 3.268e-02 2.133 0.0332 *
#> TMP_MIN 2.045e-02 7.029e-02 0.291 0.7712
#> RAIN_ANN 1.333e-03 1.501e-04 8.883 <2e-16 ***
#> TMP_MIN:RAIN_ANN 1.415e-05 4.060e-05 0.348 0.7276
#> ---
#> Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
#>
#> Approximate significance of smooth terms:
#> edf Ref.df F p-value
#> s(TMP_MIN) 3.945 5.054 2.838 0.0145 *
#> s(RAIN_ANN) 5.295 6.459 9.695 <2e-16 ***
#> ---
#> Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
#>
#> Rank: 20/22
#> R-sq.(adj) = 0.12 Deviance explained = 12.9%
#> GCV = 0.15261 Scale est. = 0.15076 n = 1000
[Angela] would like to know how plant height relates to climate – in particular, are there interactions between predictors, and is the relationship non-linear?
data(globalPlants)
ft_1temprain = gam(log(height)~temp+rain, dat=globalPlants) #linear model
ft_2tempPlusrain = gam(log(height)~poly(temp,2)+poly(rain,2), dat=globalPlants) #quadratic, no interaction
ft_2temprain = gam(log(height)~poly(temp,2)+poly(rain,2)+rain:temp, dat=globalPlants) #quadratic, interactions
ft_stempPlusrain = gam(log(height)~s(temp)+s(rain), dat=globalPlants) #smoother+no interaction
ft_stemprain = gam(log(height)~s(temp)+s(rain)+rain:temp, dat=globalPlants) #smoother+interaction
BIC(ft_1temprain,ft_2tempPlusrain,ft_2temprain,ft_stempPlusrain,ft_stemprain)
#> df BIC
#> ft_1temprain 4.000000 482.6809
#> ft_2tempPlusrain 6.000000 489.5603
#> ft_2temprain 7.000000 494.0549
#> ft_stempPlusrain 4.495239 483.6918
#> ft_stemprain 5.000000 484.6240
And the winner is a linear model.
data(globalPlants)
globalPlants$logHt = log(globalPlants$height)
ft_heightlm = lm(logHt~lat,dat=globalPlants)
plot(ft_heightlm,which=1)
Refit the model using smoothers for each environmental variable and compare to a model with additive quadratic terms (assume conditional independence for the moment).
data(Myrtaceae)
Myrtaceae$logrich=log(Myrtaceae$richness+1)
ft_richAdd = lm(logrich~soil+poly(TMP_MAX,degree=2)+
poly(TMP_MIN,degree=2)+poly(RAIN_ANN,degree=2), data=Myrtaceae)
ft_richSmooth = gam(logrich~soil+s(TMP_MAX)+s(TMP_MIN)+s(RAIN_ANN),
data=Myrtaceae)
BIC(ft_richAdd,ft_richSmooth)
#> df BIC
#> ft_richAdd 16.00000 1002.806
#> ft_richSmooth 21.89962 1013.921
It looks like the model with additive terms is a better fit.
We could try refitting the model to account for this, using the
gamm
function in the mgcv
package. Do you
think this would make any difference to our conclusion? Justify your
argument.
I’m not going to try refitting, I don’t think it would make any difference. The main thing that happens if you have spatial structure in your data that you haven’t accounted for is that you get false confidence: standard errors and P-values are too small. In a model selection context, this means that you can end up saying terms should be in the model that you don’t actually need in there, so you end up with an overly complicated model. But in this case, we have already concluded that we don’t need the more complicated model, with the extra smoother terms in it.
We would like to model the dataset to characterise the key trends within as well as across years, taking into account that carbon dioxide does not follow a linear trend over time, and that there is a periodic seasonal oscillation… What sort of model would you use?
We can fit an additive model with a smoother for the long-term trend, and harmonics (sin/cos terms) for the seasonal trend.
data(maunaloa)
library(mgcv)
ft_cyclic=gam(co2~s(DateNum)+sin(month/12*2*pi)+cos(month/12*2*pi),
data=maunaloa)
plot(maunaloa$co2~maunaloa$Date,type="l",
ylab=expression(CO[2]),xlab="Time")
points(predict(ft_cyclic)~maunaloa$Date,type="l",col="red",lwd=0.5)
par(mfrow=c(1,2))
plot(residuals(ft_cyclic)~maunaloa$Date,type="l", xlab="Time")
plot(residuals(ft_cyclic)~sin(maunaloa$month/12*2*pi),
type="l",xlab="Season")
Here is some code to produce a simulated dataset from this model, for comparison:
maunaloa$simCO2 = unlist(simulate(ft_cyclic))
ft_simCyclic=gam(simCO2~s(DateNum)+sin(month/12*2*pi)+cos(month/12*2*pi),
data=maunaloa)
par(mfrow=c(1,2))
plot(residuals(ft_simCyclic)~maunaloa$Date,type="l", xlab="Time")
plot(residuals(ft_simCyclic)~sin(maunaloa$month/12*2*pi),
type="l",xlab="Season")
ft_cyclic2=gam(co2~s(DateNum)+sin(month/12*2*pi)+cos(month/12*2*pi)+
sin(month/12*4*pi)+cos(month/12*4*pi),data=maunaloa)
par(mfrow=c(1,2))
plot(residuals(ft_cyclic2)~maunaloa$Date,type="l", xlab="Time")
plot(residuals(ft_cyclic2)~sin(maunaloa$month/12*2*pi),
type="l",xlab="Season")
ft_gamm = gamm(co2~s(DateNum)+sin(month/12*2*pi)+cos(month/12*2*pi)+
sin(month/12*4*pi)+cos(month/12*4*pi),correlation=corAR1(),
data=maunaloa)
acf(residuals(ft_gamm$gam))
We tried modelling the trend by fitting sine curves with two
frequencies… Is this sufficient, or should we add another frequency too,
like month/12*6*pi
(for curves with three cycles a
year)?
ft_cyclic3=gam(co2~s(DateNum)+sin(month/12*2*pi)+cos(month/12*2*pi)+
sin(month/12*4*pi)+cos(month/12*4*pi) +
+ sin(month/12*6*pi)+cos(month/12*6*pi), data=maunaloa)
ft_cyclic4=gam(co2~s(DateNum)+sin(month/12*2*pi)+cos(month/12*2*pi)+
sin(month/12*4*pi)+cos(month/12*4*pi) +
+ sin(month/12*6*pi)+cos(month/12*6*pi)+
sin(month/12*8*pi)+cos(month/12*8*pi), data=maunaloa)
par(mfrow=c(1,2))
plot(residuals(ft_cyclic4)~maunaloa$Date,type="l", xlab="Time")
plot(residuals(ft_cyclic4)~sin(maunaloa$month/12*2*pi),
type="l",xlab="Season")
BIC(ft_cyclic,ft_cyclic2,ft_cyclic3,ft_cyclic4)
#> df BIC
#> ft_cyclic 12.85033 1773.254
#> ft_cyclic2 14.93624 1135.151
#> ft_cyclic3 16.93686 1138.438
#> ft_cyclic4 18.93753 1141.922
According to BIC, 2 harmonics is the winner, there isn’t much to gain from adding a third or fourth.
Consider the annual Mauna Loa monthly data of Code Box 8.1, which uses the measurements from January only… Is there evidence of temporal autocorrelation in this dataset?
maunaJan = maunaloa[maunaloa$month==1,]
ft_gammJan = gamm(co2~s(year),correlation=corAR1(), data=maunaJan)
acf(residuals(ft_gammJan$gam))
ft_gammJan$lme
#> Linear mixed-effects model fit by maximum likelihood
#> Data: strip.offset(mf)
#> Log-likelihood: -51.70909
#> Fixed: y ~ X - 1
#> X(Intercept) Xs(year)Fx1
#> 356.6783 29.9981
#>
#> Random effects:
#> Formula: ~Xr - 1 | g
#> Structure: pdIdnot
#> Xr1 Xr2 Xr3 Xr4 Xr5 Xr6 Xr7 Xr8
#> StdDev: 14.15851 14.15851 14.15851 14.15851 14.15851 14.15851 14.15851 14.15851
#> Residual
#> StdDev: 0.4428823
#>
#> Correlation Structure: AR(1)
#> Formula: ~1 | g
#> Parameter estimate(s):
#> Phi
#> 0.2638297
#> Number of Observations: 63
#> Number of Groups: 1
There isn’t really an autocorrelation signal here – the lags represent years now rather than months, and consecutive years (lag 1) have a correlation of less than 0.1 so it looks like not much is happening. The mixed effects model doesn’t really do much here. The estimated autocorrelation is surprisingly large given this (0.26) but it is much smaller than in the monthly analysis (0.76) and decays to negligible levels quickly (correlation at two years is 0.26^2=0.07).
Consider Ian’s species richness data… How would you enter
aspect
into the model? This is a cyclical variable so
we would add cos
and sin
terms to the
model.
data(Myrtaceae)
summary(Myrtaceae$aspect)
#> Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max.
#> 0.0652 91.0725 176.0736 181.5191 271.8024 359.8948
It seems to have been entered in degrees so has period 360. Maybe we can consider two harmonics to try to account for non-sinusoidal response. We will keep soil, temperature and rainfall variables from previously:
data(Myrtaceae)
Myrtaceae$logrich=log(Myrtaceae$richness+1)
ft_richAsp = lm(logrich~soil+poly(TMP_MAX,degree=2)+
poly(TMP_MIN,degree=2)+poly(RAIN_ANN,degree=2)+
cos(aspect*2*pi/360)+sin(aspect*2*pi/360)+cos(aspect*4*pi/360)+sin(aspect*4*pi/360),
data=Myrtaceae)
ft_richAdd = lm(logrich~soil+poly(TMP_MAX,degree=2)+
poly(TMP_MIN,degree=2)+poly(RAIN_ANN,degree=2), data=Myrtaceae)
BIC(ft_richAsp,ft_richAdd)
#> df BIC
#> ft_richAsp 20 1026.860
#> ft_richAdd 16 1002.806
It looks like there isn’t really an aspect
signal in the
data, BIC is much smaller without any aspect terms being in the
model.
Recall that species richness had some spatial structure to it.
Refit the model using the gls
function from the
nlme
package to account for spatially structured
correlation. Did this change your inferences about aspect
in any appreciable way?
Well it won’t change our inferences because ignoring spatial
correlation risks giving you false confidence in the importance of
terms, but we already decided that aspect
is not important.
But anyway. We decided last time around that an exponential model with a
nugget effect did OK:
This code chunk is not run, because it will take several minutes:
library(nlme)
ft_richNugg = gls(logrich~soil+poly(TMP_MAX,degree=2)+poly(TMP_MIN,degree=2)+
poly(RAIN_ANN,degree=2),data=Myrtaceae,
correlation=corExp(form=~X+Y,nugget=TRUE))
ft_richAspNugg = gls(logrich~soil+poly(TMP_MAX,degree=2)+poly(TMP_MIN,degree=2)+
poly(RAIN_ANN,degree=2)+ cos(aspect*2*pi/360)+sin(aspect*2*pi/360)+cos(aspect*4*pi/360)+sin(aspect*4*pi/360),data=Myrtaceae,
correlation=corExp(form=~X+Y,nugget=TRUE))
BIC(ft_richNugg)
BIC(ft_richAspNugg)
As expected, this did not change inference in any appreciable way!
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