From: Benjamin Auder Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 11:29:07 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Early draft of vignette X-Git-Url: https://git.auder.net/%7B%7B%20asset%28%27mixstore/images/scripts/current/pieces/%24%7BgetWhatsApp%28link%29%7D?a=commitdiff_plain;h=49916721bd6f7c95a0c3f20711217a62b154014d;p=morpheus.git Early draft of vignette --- diff --git a/vignettes/report.Rmd b/vignettes/report.Rmd index 4149717..4d57018 100644 --- a/vignettes/report.Rmd +++ b/vignettes/report.Rmd @@ -13,6 +13,18 @@ knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE, include = TRUE, out.width = "100%", fig.align = "center") ``` +morpheus is a contributed R package which attempts to find the parameters of a mixture of logistic classifiers. +Logistic models, or more generally multinomial regression models that fit covariates to discrete responses through a link function, are very popular. +When the data under study come from several groups that have di erent characteristics,using mixture models is also a very popular way to handle heterogeneity. Thus, many algo-rithms were developed to deal with various mixtures models, see for instance the book [5].Most of them use likelihood methods or Bayesian methods that are likelihood dependent.Indeed, the now well known expectation-maximization (EM) methodology or its randomizedversions makes it often easy to build algorithms. However one problem of such methods isthat they can converge to local spurious maxima so that it is necessary to explore manyenough initial points. Recently, spectral methods were developed to bypass EM algorithmsand they were proved able to recover the directions of the regression parameter in modelswith known link function and random covariates, see [9].One aim of this paper is to extend such moment methods using least squares to get es-timators of the whole parameters, and to provide theoretical guarantees of this estimationmethod. The setting is that of regression models with binary outputs, random covariatesand known link function, detailed in Section 2. We rst prove that cross moments up toorder 3 between the output and the regression variables are enough to recover all the pa-rameters of the model, see Theorem 1 for the probit link function and Theorem 2 for generallink functions. We then obtain consistency and asymptotic normality of our least squaresestimators as usual, see Theorem 3. The algorithm is described at the end of Section 3,1 + +and to apply it, we developed the R-packagemorpheusavailable on the CRAN ([3]). Wethen compare experimentally our method to the maximum likelihood estimator computedusing the R-package exmix ([6]). We show that our estimator may be better for the probitlink function with nite samples when the dimension increases, though keeping very smallcomputation times when that of exmix increases with dimension. The experiments arepresented in Section 4 + + + + + + + 0) Tell that we try to learn classification parameters in a non-EM way, using algebric manipulations. 1) Model. 2) Algorithm (as in article)