R: Pseudo-Observations

pobs {copula} | R Documentation

## Pseudo-Observations

### Description

Compute the pseudo-observations for the given data matrix.

### Usage

    pobs(x, na.last = "keep",
         ties.method = eval(formals(rank)$ties.method), lower.tail = TRUE)

### Arguments

`x` | n x d-matrix (or d-vector) of random variates to be converted to pseudo-observations.
`na.last` | string passed to `rank`; see there.
`ties.method` | string specifying how ranks should be computed if there are ties in any of the coordinate samples of `x`; passed to `rank`.
`lower.tail` | `logical` which, if `FALSE`, returns the pseudo-observations when applying the empirical marginal survival functions.

### Details

Given n realizations x_i=(x_{i1},...,x_{id}), i in {1,...,n} of a random vector X, the pseudo-observations are defined via u_{ij}=r_{ij}/(n+1) for i in {1,...,n} and j in {1,...,d}, where r_{ij} denotes the rank of x_{ij} among all x_{kj}, k in {1,...,n}. When there are no ties in any of the coordinate samples of `x`, the pseudo-observations can thus also be computed by component-wise applying the marginal empirical distribution functions to the data and scaling the result by n/(n+1). This asymptotically negligible scaling factor is used to force the variates to fall inside the open unit hypercube, for example, to avoid problems with density evaluation at the boundaries. Note that `pobs(, lower.tail=FALSE)` simply returns `1-pobs()`.

### Value

`matrix` (or `vector`) of the same dimensions as `x` containing the pseudo-observations.

### Examples

    ## Simple definition of the function:
    pobs

    ## Draw from a multivariate normal distribution
    d <- 10
    set.seed(1)
    P <- Matrix::nearPD(matrix(pmin(pmax(runif(d*d), 0.3), 0.99), ncol=d))$mat
    diag(P) <- rep(1, d)
    n <- 500
    x <- MASS::mvrnorm(n, mu = rep(0, d), Sigma = P)

    ## Compute pseudo-observations (should roughly follow a Gauss
    ## copula with correlation matrix P)
    u <- pobs(x)
    plot(u[,5],u[,10], xlab=quote(italic(U)[1]), ylab=quote(italic(U)[2]))

    ## All components: pairwise plot
    pairs(u, gap=0, pch=".", labels =
          as.expression( lapply(1:d, function(j) bquote(italic(U[.(j)]))) ))

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