dyn.cor {longitudinal}R Documentation

Dynamical Correlation and Covariance

Description

The functions estimate dynamical correlation and covariance, and related quantities.

Usage

dyn.cor(x, lambda, protect=0, verbose=TRUE)
dyn.var(x, lambda.var, protect=0, verbose=TRUE)
dyn.cov(x, lambda, lambda.var, protect=0, verbose=TRUE)
dyn.invcor(x, lambda, protect=0, verbose=TRUE)
dyn.invcov(x, lambda, lambda.var, protect=0, verbose=TRUE)
dyn.pvar(x, lambda, lambda.var, protect=0, verbose=TRUE)
dyn.pcor(x, lambda, protect=0, verbose=TRUE)

Arguments

x a data matrix
lambda the correlation shrinkage intensity (range 0-1). If lambda is not specified (the default) it is estimated using an analytic formula from Schaefer and Strimmer (2005)and Opgen-Rhein and Strimmer (2006). For lambda=0 the empirical correlations are recovered. See also cor.shrink.
lambda.var the variance shrinkage intensity (range 0-1). If lambda.var is not specified (the default) it is estimated using an analytic formula from Schaefer and Strimmer (2005) and Opgen-Rhein and Strimmer (2006). For lambda.var=0 the empirical variances are recovered. See also var.shrink.
protect the fraction of correlation components protected against excessive individual component risk (default: 0.01)
verbose report progress while computing (default: TRUE)

Details

The dynamical correlation and related quantities implemented here follow the definition of Opgen-Rhein and K. Strimmer (2006a,b). This approach derives from a FDA perspective. Essentially, it takes account of the distances between the various time points by introducing weights. If these weights are all equal the usual iid estimators are obtained.

For details about the analytic shrinkage procedure consult Opgen-Rhein and K. Strimmer (2006b) and Schaefer and Strimmer (2005) as well as the help page of cov.shrink.

Value

dyn.cor returns the dynamical correlation matrix. dyn.var returns the vector of dynamical variances. dyn.cov returns the dynamical covariance matrix.
dyn.invcor returns the inverse dynamical correlation matrix. dyn.invcov returns the inverse dynamical covariance matrix.
dyn.pvar returns the vector of partial dynamical variances. dyn.pcor returns the partial dynamical correlation matrix.

Author(s)

Rainer Opgen-Rhein (http://opgen-rhein.de) and Korbinian Strimmer (http://www.strimmerlab.org).

References

Opgen-Rhein, R., and K. Strimmer. 2006a. Inferring gene dependency networks from genomic longitudinal data: a functional data approach. REVSTAT 4:53-65. (http://http://www.ine.pt/revstat/)

Opgen-Rhein, R., and K. Strimmer. 2006b. Using regularized dynamic correlation to infer gene dependency networks from time-series microarray data. The 4th International Workshop on Computational Systems Biology, WCSB 2006 (June 12-13, 2006, Tampere, Finland). (http://www.cs.tut.fi/wcsb06/)

Schaefer, J., and Strimmer, K. (2005). A shrinkage approach to large-scale covariance estimation and implications for functional genomics. Statist. Appl. Genet. Mol. Biol. 4:32. (http://www.bepress.com/sagmb/vol4/iss1/art32/)

See Also

dyn.weights, cov.shrink, pcor.shrink

Examples

# load "longitudinal" library
library("longitudinal")

# load tcell data
data(tcell)
get.time.repeats(tcell.34)

# dynamical partial correlation 
# (this takes into account of the unequal spacings between time points) 
dynpc <- dyn.pcor(tcell.34, lambda=0)

# static partial correlation
statpc <- pcor.shrink(tcell.34, lambda=0)

# this is NOT the same
sum((dynpc - statpc)^2)


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