Tweedie Distributions: the deviance function
The deviance function for the Tweedie family of distributions
tweedie.dev(y, mu, power)
y |
vector of quantiles (which can be zero if 1 < power < 2 |
mu |
the mean |
power |
the value of power such that the variance is var(Y) = phi * mu^power |
The Tweedie family of distributions belong to the class
of exponential dispersion models (EDMs),
famous for their role in generalized linear models.
The Tweedie distributions are the EDMs with a variance of the form
var(Y) = phi * mu^power
where power is greater than or equal to one, or less than or equal to zero.
This function only evaluates for power
greater than or equal to one.
Special cases include the
normal (power=0),
Poisson (power=1 with phi=1),
gamma (power=2)
and
inverse Gaussian (power=3)
distributions.
For other values of power,
the distributions are still defined but cannot be written in closed form,
and hence evaluation is very difficult.
The deviance is defined by deviance as
“up to a constant, minus twice the maximized log-likelihood.
Where sensible, the constant is chosen so that a saturated
model has deviance zero.”
the value of the deviance
for the given Tweedie distribution with parameters
mu,
phi
and
power.
Peter Dunn (pdunn2@usc.edu.au)
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### Plot a Tweedie deviance function when 1<p<2
mu <- 1
y <- seq(0, 6, length = 100)
dev1 <- tweedie.dev(y = y, mu = mu, power = 1.1)
dev2 <- tweedie.dev(y = y, mu = mu, power = 1.5)
dev3 <- tweedie.dev(y = y, mu = mu, power = 1.9)
plot(range(y), range( c(dev1, dev2, dev3)),
type = "n", lwd = 2, ylab = "Deviance", xlab = expression(italic(y)) )
lines(y, dev1, lty = 1, col = 1, lwd = 2)
lines(y, dev2, lty = 2, col = 2, lwd = 2)
lines(y, dev3, lty = 3, col = 3, lwd = 2)
legend("top", col = c(1, 2, 3), lwd = c(2, 2, 2), lty = c(1, 2, 3),
legend = c("p=1.1", "p=1.5", "p=1.9") )
### Plot a Tweedie deviance function when p>2
mu <- 1
y <- seq(0.1, 6, length = 100)
dev1 <- tweedie.dev(y = y, mu=mu, power=2) # Gamma
dev2 <- tweedie.dev(y = y, mu=mu, power=3) # Inverse Gaussian
dev3 <- tweedie.dev(y = y, mu=mu, power=4)
plot(range(y), range( c(dev1, dev2, dev3)),
type="n", lwd=2, ylab="Deviance", xlab=expression(italic(y)) )
lines( y, dev1, lty = 1, col = 1, lwd = 2 )
lines( y, dev2, lty = 2, col = 2, lwd = 2 )
lines( y, dev3, lty = 3, col = 3, lwd = 2 )
legend("top", col = c(1, 2, 3), lwd = c(2, 2, 2), lty = c(1, 2, 3),
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