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latvar

Latent Variables


Description

Generic function for the latent variables of a model.

Usage

latvar(object, ...)
    lv(object, ...)

Arguments

object

An object for which the extraction of latent variables is meaningful.

...

Other arguments fed into the specific methods function of the model. Sometimes they are fed into the methods function for Coef.

Details

Latent variables occur in reduced-rank regression models, as well as in quadratic and additive ordination models. For the latter two, latent variable values are often called site scores by ecologists. Latent variables are linear combinations of the explanatory variables.

Value

The value returned depends specifically on the methods function invoked.

Warning

latvar and lv are identical, but the latter will be deprecated soon.

Latent variables are not really applicable to vglm/vgam models.

Author(s)

Thomas W. Yee

References

Yee, T. W. and Hastie, T. J. (2003). Reduced-rank vector generalized linear models. Statistical Modelling, 3, 15–41.

Yee, T. W. (2004). A new technique for maximum-likelihood canonical Gaussian ordination. Ecological Monographs, 74, 685–701.

Yee, T. W. (2006). Constrained additive ordination. Ecology, 87, 203–213.

See Also

latvar.qrrvglm, latvar.rrvglm, latvar.cao, lvplot.

Examples

## Not run: 
hspider[, 1:6] <- scale(hspider[, 1:6])  # Standardized environmental vars
set.seed(123)
p1 <- cao(cbind(Pardlugu, Pardmont, Pardnigr, Pardpull, Zoraspin) ~
          WaterCon + BareSand + FallTwig + CoveMoss + CoveHerb + ReflLux,
          family = poissonff, data = hspider, Rank = 1, df1.nl =
          c(Zoraspin = 2.5, 3), Bestof = 3, Crow1positive = TRUE)

var(latvar(p1))  # Scaled to unit variance  # Scaled to unit variance
c(latvar(p1))    # Estimated site scores

## End(Not run)

VGAM

Vector Generalized Linear and Additive Models

v1.1-5
GPL-3
Authors
Thomas Yee [aut, cre], Cleve Moler [ctb] (author of several LINPACK routines)
Initial release
2021-01-13

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