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## Computes the Zeta squared coefficient for a multivariate linear hypothesis

### Description

Computes the Zeta squared index of "effect magnitude". The maximization of this criterion is equivalent to the maximization of the traditional test statistic, the Lawley-Hotelling trace.

### Usage

    zeta2.coef(mat, H, r, indices,
    tolval=10*.Machine$double.eps, tolsym=1000*.Machine$double.eps)

### Arguments

`mat` | the Variance or Total sums of squares and products matrix for the full data set.
`H` | the Effect description sums of squares and products matrix (defined in the same way as the `mat` matrix).
`r` | the Expected rank of the H matrix. See the `Details` below.
`indices` | a numerical vector, matrix or 3-d array of integers giving the indices of the variables in the subset. If a matrix is specified, each row is taken to represent a different k-variable subset. If a 3-d array is given, it is assumed that the third dimension corresponds to different cardinalities.
`tolval` | the tolerance level to be used in checks for ill-conditioning and positive-definiteness of the 'total' and 'effects' (H) matrices. Values smaller than `tolval` are considered equivalent to zero.
`tolsym` | the tolerance level for symmetry of the covariance/correlation/total matrix and for the effects (`H`) matrix. If corresponding matrix entries differ by more than this value, the input matrices will be considered asymmetric and execution will be aborted. If corresponding entries are different, but by less than this value, the input matrix will be replaced by its symmetric part, i.e., input matrix A becomes (A+t(A))/2.

### Details

Different kinds of statistical methodologies are considered within the framework, of a multivariate linear model:

X = A B + U

where X is the (nxp) data matrix of original variables, A is a known (nxp) design matrix, B an (qxp) matrix of unknown parameters and U an (nxp) matrix of residual vectors. The zeta2 index is related to the traditional test statistic (Lawley-Hotelling trace) and measures the contribution of each subset to an Effect characterized by the violation of a linear hypothesis of the form C B = 0, where C is a known cofficient matrix of rank r. The Lawley-Hotelling trace is given by: V=tr(HE^{-1}) where H is the Effect matrix and E is the Error matrix. The index zeta2 is related to Lawley-Hotelling trace (V) by:

zeta^2 = V/(V+r)

where r is the rank of H matrix.

The fact that `indices` can be a matrix or 3-d array allows for the computation of the ζ^2 values of subsets produced by the search functions `anneal`, `genetic`, `improve` and `eleaps` (whose output option `$subsets` are matrices or 3-d arrays), using a different criterion (see the example below).

### Value

The value of the zeta2 coefficient.

### Examples

    ## ---------------------------------------------------------------

    ## 1) A Linear Discriminant Analysis example with a very small data set.
    ## We considered the Iris data and three groups,
    ## defined by species (setosa, versicolor and virginica).

    data(iris)
    irisHmat <- ldaHmat(iris[1:4],iris$Species)
    zeta2.coef(irisHmat$mat,H=irisHmat$H,r=2,c(1,3))
    ## [1] 0.9211501

    ## ---------------------------------------------------------------

    ## 2) An example computing the value of the zeta_2 criterion for two
    ## subsets produced when the anneal function attempted to optimize
    ## the ccr1_2 criterion (using an absurdly small number of iterations).

    ccr1results<-anneal(irisHmat$mat,2,nsol=2,niter=2,criterion="ccr12",
    H=irisHmat$H,r=2)
    zeta2.coef(irisHmat$mat,H=irisHmat$H,r=2,ccr1results$subsets)

    ##              Card.2
    ##Solution 1 0.9105021
    ##Solution 2 0.9161813

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