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The R package ‘quantdr’ performs dimension reduction techniques for conditional quantiles by estimating the fewest linear combinations of X that contain all the information on that function. For details of the methodology, see Christou, E. (2020) Central quantile subspace. Statistics and Computing, 30, 677–695.
The main function of the package is cqs
, which estimates
the directions of the central quantile subspace. Once the directions are
determined, one can form the new sufficient predictors and estimate the
conditional quantile function using llqr
.
You can install the released version of quantdr from CRAN with:
install.packages("quantdr")
and the development version from GitHub with:
# install.packages("devtools")
::install_github("elianachristou/quantdr") devtools
This is a basic example which shows you how to solve the problem.
library(quantdr)
## basic example code - a homoscedastic single-index model
# Setting
set.seed(1234)
<- 100
n <- 10
p <- c(0.1, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 0.9)
taus <- matrix(rnorm(n * p), n, p)
x <- rnorm(n)
error <- 3 * x[, 1] + x[, 2] + error
y
# true direction that spans each central quantile subspace
<- c(3, 1, rep(0, p - 2))
beta_true / sqrt(sum(beta_true^2))
beta_true #> [1] 0.9486833 0.3162278 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
#> [8] 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
# sufficient direction
<- x %*% beta_true
dir1
# Estimate the directions of each central quantile subspace
# Since dtau is known to be one, the algorithm will produce only one vector
<- matrix(0, p, length(taus))
out for (i in 1:length(taus)) {
<- cqs(x, y, tau = taus[i], dtau = 1)$qvectors
out[, i]
}
out#> [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5]
#> [1,] 0.955128387 0.953563098 0.952948139 0.95432205 0.957157424
#> [2,] 0.282221145 0.286814969 0.287974471 0.28469153 0.275583662
#> [3,] 0.040025231 0.040124118 0.042667367 0.04252055 0.039230711
#> [4,] 0.037794516 0.037393312 0.038590479 0.03742298 0.037849461
#> [5,] -0.002145479 -0.002710592 -0.003885815 -0.00284509 0.002339282
#> [6,] -0.049903668 -0.047392988 -0.042769158 -0.05199378 -0.053432303
#> [7,] 0.029549555 0.029730897 0.028417264 0.02857128 0.032300729
#> [8,] 0.016985520 0.017341603 0.018789922 0.01678999 0.017397007
#> [9,] 0.015690746 0.019725351 0.023914784 0.01175831 0.009852825
#> [10,] 0.033877447 0.040239263 0.045541197 0.03261534 0.025062461
# compare each estimated direction with the true one using the angle between the two subspaces
library(pracma)
for (i in 1:length(taus)) {
print(subspace(out[, i], beta_true) / (pi / 2)) # the angle is measured in radians, so divide by pi/2
}#> [1] 0.0613477
#> [1] 0.06156084
#> [1] 0.06297377
#> [1] 0.06124013
#> [1] 0.06248869
# Estimate and plot the conditional quantile function using the new sufficient predictors
library(ggplot2)
<- x %*% out
newx <- as.null()
qhat for (i in 1:length(taus)) {
<- c(qhat, llqr(newx[, i], y, tau = taus[i])$ll_est)
qhat
}
<- data.frame(rep(dir1, n), rep(y, n), c(newx), rep(taus, each = n), qhat)
data1 names(data1) <- c("dir1", "y", "newx", "quantiles", 'qhat')
ggplot(data1, aes(x = dir1, y = y)) + geom_point(size = 1) +
geom_point(aes(x = dir1, qhat), colour = 'red', size = 1) +
facet_wrap(~quantiles, ncol = 3) + xlab('sufficient direction')
Another example using the Boston housing data from the
MASS
library in R
.
library(MASS)
attach(Boston)
# read the data
<- medv
y <- cbind(rm, log(tax), ptratio, log(lstat))
x <- length(y)
n <- dim(x)[2]
p
# plot the estimated coefficient of each predictor variable for multiple quantiles
<- seq(0.1, 0.9, by = 0.005)
tau <- matrix(0, p, length(tau))
beta_hat
for (k in 1:length(tau)) {
<- cqs(x, y, tau = tau[k])
out <- out$qvectors[, 1:out$dtau] # the suggested dimension of the central quantile subspace is 1
beta_hat[, k]
}
<- data.frame(c(t(beta_hat)), rep(tau, p), rep(c('RM', 'log(TAX)', 'PTRATIO', 'log(LSTAT)'), each = length(tau)))
data2 names(data2) <- c('beta_hat', 'tau', 'coefficient')
ggplot(data2, aes(x = tau, y = beta_hat)) + geom_line() +
facet_wrap(~coefficient, ncol = 2, scales = "free_y") +
ylab('Coefficient') + xlab('Quantile')
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