[R] mixtures as outcome variables

[Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen]

Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:

> Jason W. Martinez wrote:
>
>> Dear R-users,
>>
>> I have an outcome variable and I'm unsure about how to treat it. Any
>> advice?
>>
> If you only concentrate on the relative proportions, this are called 
> compositional data. I f your data are in
> mydata (n x 4), you obtain compositions by
> sweep(mydata, 1, apply(mydata, 1, sum), "/")
>
> There are not (AFAIK) specific functions/packages for R for 
> compositional data AFAIK, but you
> can try googling. Aitchison  has a monography (Chapman & Hall) and a 
> paper in JRSS B.
>
> One way to start might be lm's or anova on the symmetric logratio 
> transform of the
> compositons. The R function lm can take a multivariate response, but 
> some extra programming will be needed
> for interpretation. With simulated data:
>
> > slr
> function(y) { # y should sum to 1
>          v <- log(y)
>          return( v - mean(v) ) }
> > testdata <- matrix( rgamma(120, 2,3), 30, 4)
> > str(testdata)
> num [1:30, 1:4] 0.200 0.414 0.311 2.145 0.233 ...
> > comp <- sweep(testdata, 1, apply(testdata,1,sum), "/")
> # To get the symmetric logratio transform:
> comp <- t(apply(comp, 1, slr))
> # Observe:
> apply(cov(comp), 1, sum)
> [1] -5.551115e-17  2.775558e-17  5.551115e-17 -2.775558e-17
> > lm( comp ~ 1)
>
> Call:
> lm(formula = comp ~ 1)
>
> Coefficients:
>             [,1]      [,2]      [,3]      [,4]   (Intercept)   
> 0.17606   0.06165  -0.03783  -0.19988

Followup:

 > mmod <- manova(comp ~ x)
 > summary(mmod)
Error in summary.manova(mmod) : residuals have rank 3 < 4
 >

So the manova() function cannot be used. I guess MANOVA for 
compositional data should be
a straight extension, but it must be programmed , standard manova cannot 
be used.

Kjetil

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