Dear Vito,
Thank you very much for the advice - I will try it and see how the regression
looks.
Best,
Lucas
On Jun 6, 2012, at 11:45 AM, Vito Muggeo (UniPa) wrote:
dear Lucas,
If you are interested in selecting the number of breakpoints here a possible
remedy:
1. Fit a segmented model with a large number of breakpoints via the arguments
psi=NA and stop.if.error=FALSE in seg.control() (see the example below)
2. extract the model matrix relevant to the variables of the breakpoints
3. Use lars with the extracted model matrix
Notice that there are at least two issues that I did not mention:
a) The criterion to be used to select the variables (i.e the breakpoints)
b) When you remove variables (i.e. breakpoints) you are assuming that the ML
estimate of the remaining breakpoints is the same (and this is not the case
here, as point estimates of the breakpoints depend on the number of
breakpoints themselves..)
vito
###Here a simple example
n=100
xx-1:n/n
psi0-seq(.2,.8,by=.2)
X-sapply(c(0,psi0), function(x)pmax(xx-x,0))
b-c(-.6,.7,.4,-1,.5)
mu-drop(X%*%b)
yy-mu+rnorm(n)*.01
plot(xx,mu);lines(xx, mu)
library(segmented)
o-lm(yy~xx)
os-segmented(o,seg.Z=~xx,psi=NA,control=seg.control(stop.if.error=FALSE,K=30,
n.boot=0))
plot(os, add=T, col=2) #have a look to results
#extract the new model matrix
new.X-model.matrix(os)[,os$nameUV$U]
#finally use lars on y~new.X
Hope this helps you,
vito
Il 06/06/2012 15.48, Lucas Santana dos Santos ha scritto:
Hi Vito,
I am more interested in selecting the number of breakpoints. My data has
some structure and I believe that fitting a piecewise regression would be of
great benefit.
Thanks,
Lucas
On Jun 6, 2012, at 4:54 AM, Vito Muggeo (UniPa) wrote:
dear lucas,
yes you are right, segmented does not handle 'lars' objects.
Out of curisity, are you interested in selecting the number of breakpoints
or in selecting additional covariates with linear parameters?
vito
Il 06/06/2012 0.01, Lucas Santana dos Santos ha scritto:
Hi All,
I am trying to fit a piecewise lasso regression, but package Segmented
does not work with Lars objects.
Does any know of any package or implementation of piecewise lasso
regression?
Thanks,
Lucas
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tel: 091 23895240
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