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logitlink

Logit Link Function


Description

Computes the logit transformation, including its inverse and the first two derivatives.

Usage

logitlink(theta, bvalue = NULL, inverse = FALSE, deriv = 0,
          short = TRUE, tag = FALSE)
extlogitlink(theta, min = 0, max = 1, bminvalue = NULL, bmaxvalue = NULL,
             inverse = FALSE, deriv = 0, short = TRUE, tag = FALSE)

Arguments

theta

Numeric or character. See below for further details.

bvalue, bminvalue, bmaxvalue

See Links. These are boundary values. For extlogitlink, values of theta less than or equal to A or greater than or equal to B can be replaced by bminvalue and bmaxvalue.

min, max

For extlogitlink, min gives A, max gives B, and for out of range values, bminvalue and bmaxvalue.

inverse, deriv, short, tag

Details at Links.

Details

The logit link function is very commonly used for parameters that lie in the unit interval. It is the inverse CDF of the logistic distribution. Numerical values of theta close to 0 or 1 or out of range result in Inf, -Inf, NA or NaN.

The extended logit link function extlogitlink should be used more generally for parameters that lie in the interval (A,B), say. The formula is

log((theta-A)/(B-theta))

and the default values for A and B correspond to the ordinary logit function. Numerical values of theta close to A or B or out of range result in Inf, -Inf, NA or NaN. However these can be replaced by values bminvalue and bmaxvalue first before computing the link function.

Value

For logitlink with deriv = 0, the logit of theta, i.e., log(theta/(1-theta)) when inverse = FALSE, and if inverse = TRUE then exp(theta)/(1+exp(theta)).

For deriv = 1, then the function returns d eta / d theta as a function of theta if inverse = FALSE, else if inverse = TRUE then it returns the reciprocal.

Here, all logarithms are natural logarithms, i.e., to base e.

Note

Numerical instability may occur when theta is close to 1 or 0 (for logitlink), or close to A or B for extlogitlink. One way of overcoming this is to use, e.g., bvalue.

In terms of the threshold approach with cumulative probabilities for an ordinal response this link function corresponds to the univariate logistic distribution (see logistic).

Author(s)

Thomas W. Yee

References

McCullagh, P. and Nelder, J. A. (1989). Generalized Linear Models, 2nd ed. London: Chapman & Hall.

See Also

Examples

p <- seq(0.01, 0.99, by = 0.01)
logitlink(p)
max(abs(logitlink(logitlink(p), inverse = TRUE) - p))  # Should be 0

p <- c(seq(-0.02, 0.02, by = 0.01), seq(0.97, 1.02, by = 0.01))
logitlink(p)  # Has NAs
logitlink(p, bvalue = .Machine$double.eps)  # Has no NAs

p <- seq(0.9, 2.2, by = 0.1)
extlogitlink(p, min = 1, max = 2,
             bminvalue = 1 + .Machine$double.eps,
             bmaxvalue = 2 - .Machine$double.eps)  # Has no NAs

## Not run:  par(mfrow = c(2,2), lwd = (mylwd <- 2))
y <- seq(-4, 4, length = 100)
p <- seq(0.01, 0.99, by = 0.01)
for (d in 0:1) {
  myinv <- (d > 0)
  matplot(p, cbind( logitlink(p, deriv = d, inverse = myinv),
                   probitlink(p, deriv = d, inverse = myinv)),
          type = "n", col = "purple", ylab = "transformation", las = 1,
          main = if (d ==  0) "Some probability link functions"
          else "1 / first derivative")
  lines(p,   logitlink(p, deriv = d, inverse = myinv), col = "limegreen")
  lines(p,  probitlink(p, deriv = d, inverse = myinv), col = "purple")
  lines(p, clogloglink(p, deriv = d, inverse = myinv), col = "chocolate")
  lines(p, cauchitlink(p, deriv = d, inverse = myinv), col = "tan")
  if (d ==  0) {
    abline(v = 0.5, h = 0, lty = "dashed")
    legend(0, 4.5, c("logitlink", "probitlink", "clogloglink", "cauchitlink"),
           col = c("limegreen", "purple", "chocolate", "tan"), lwd = mylwd)
  } else
    abline(v = 0.5, lty = "dashed")
}

for (d in 0) {
  matplot(y, cbind(logitlink(y, deriv = d, inverse = TRUE),
                   probitlink(y, deriv = d, inverse = TRUE)), las = 1,
          type = "n", col = "purple", xlab = "transformation", ylab = "p",
          main = if (d ==  0) "Some inverse probability link functions"
          else "First derivative")
  lines(y,   logitlink(y, deriv = d, inverse = TRUE), col = "limegreen")
  lines(y,  probitlink(y, deriv = d, inverse = TRUE), col = "purple")
  lines(y, clogloglink(y, deriv = d, inverse = TRUE), col = "chocolate")
  lines(y, cauchitlink(y, deriv = d, inverse = TRUE), col = "tan")
  if (d ==  0) {
    abline(h = 0.5, v = 0, lty = "dashed")
    legend(-4, 1, c("logitlink", "probitlink", "clogloglink", "cauchitlink"),
           col = c("limegreen", "purple", "chocolate", "tan"), lwd = mylwd)
  }
}

p <- seq(0.21, 0.59, by = 0.01)
plot(p, extlogitlink(p, min = 0.2, max = 0.6),
     type = "l", col = "black", ylab = "transformation", xlim = c(0, 1),
     las = 1, main = "extlogitlink(p, min = 0.2, max = 0.6)")
par(lwd = 1)

## 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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