Package 'rEMM'

Title: Extensible Markov Model for Modelling Temporal Relationships Between Clusters
Description: Implements TRACDS (Temporal Relationships between Clusters for Data Streams), a generalization of Extensible Markov Model (EMM). TRACDS adds a temporal or order model to data stream clustering by superimposing a dynamically adapting Markov Chain. Also provides an implementation of EMM (TRACDS on top of tNN data stream clustering). Development of this package was supported in part by NSF IIS-0948893 and R21HG005912 from the National Human Genome Research Institute. Hahsler and Dunham (2010) <doi:10.18637/jss.v035.i05>.
Authors: Michael Hahsler [aut, cre, cph] , Margaret H. Dunham [ctb]
Maintainer: Michael Hahsler <[email protected]>
License: GPL-2
Version: 1.2.1
Built: 2024-10-26 05:27:34 UTC
Source: https://github.com/mhahsler/rEMM

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Count Data for 16S rRNA Sequences

Description

This data set contains count data for 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) sequences for the two phylogenetic classes Alphaproteobacteria and Mollicutes. The counts for 30 sequences for each class were obtained by counting the occurrence of triplets of nucleotides in windows of length 100 without any overlap. To separate sequences a row of dummy count of NA is used.

Usage

data("16S")

Format

Alphaproteobacteria16S and Mollicutes16S are matrices with about 449 rows and 64 (number of possible triplets) columns.

Source

The raw sequence information was obtained from the National center for biotechnology information (NCBI) website at http://www.ncbi.nih.gov/

Examples

data("16S")

emm <- EMM("Kullback", threshold=0.1)
build(emm, Mollicutes16S+1)

## start state for sequences have an initial state probability >0
it <- initial_transition(emm)
it[it>0]

Building an EMM using New Data

Description

Add new data to an EMM.

Usage

build(x, newdata, ...)

Arguments

x

an EMM object. Note that the function will change the original EMM!

newdata

a vector (one observation), or a matrix or data.frame (each row is an observation)

...

further arguments. If newdata is a matrix or a data.frame then verbose = TRUE can be used to monitor the progress of building the model.

Details

build() performs clustering and also updates the TRACDS temporal layer.

NAs are handled in the data by using only the other dimensions if the data for dissimilarity computation (see package proxy).

Value

A reference to the changed EMM object with the data added. Note: EMM objects store all variable data in an environment which enables us to update partial data without copying the whole object. Assignment will not create a copy! Use the provided method copy().

See Also

Class TRACDS, fade and dist in proxy.

Examples

## load EMMTraffic data
data("EMMTraffic")
EMMTraffic

## create EMM
emm <- EMM(measure="eJaccard", threshold=0.2)

## build model using EMMTraffic data (note that the EMM object is
## changed without assignment!)
build(emm, EMMTraffic)
## same as: emm <- build(emm, EMMTraffic)

size(emm)
plot(emm)

## emm2 <- emm does not create a copy (just a reference)
## a "deep" copy is created using copy()
emm2<- copy(emm)

## convert the emm into a graph
as.igraph(emm)

Data stream clustering with tNN

Description

Cluster new data into an existing tNN object.

Usage

cluster(x, newdata, ...)

Arguments

x

a tNN object. Note that this function canges the original object!

newdata

a vector (one observation), or a matrix or data.frame (each row is an observation).

...

further arguments like verbose.

Details

cluster() implements tNN clustering The dissimilarity between the new observation and the centers of the clusters is calculated. The new observation is assigned to the closest cluster if the dissimilarity value is smaller than the threshold (for the state). If no such state exists, a new state is created for the observation. This simple clustering algorithm is called nearest neighbor threshold nearest neighbor (threshold NN).

NAs are handled in the data by using only the other dimensions if the data for dissimilarity computation (see package~proxy).

The clusters which the data points in the last cluster() operation where assigned to can be retrieved using the method last_clustering().

Value

A reference to the changed tNN object with the data added. Note: tNN objects store all variable data in an environment which enables us to update partial data without copying the whole object. Assignment will not create a copy! Use the provided method copy().

See Also

Class tNN, fade and dist in proxy.

Examples

## load EMMTraffic data
data(EMMTraffic)

## create empty clustering
tnn <- tNN(th=0.2, measure="eJaccard")
tnn

## cluster some data
cluster(tnn, EMMTraffic)
tnn

## what clusters were the data points assigned to?
last_clustering(tnn)

## plot the clustering as a scatterplot matrix of the cluster centers
plot(tnn)

Combining EMM Objects

Description

Combines two or more EMMs into a single object.

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'EMM'
c(x, ..., copy=TRUE, recursive = FALSE)

Arguments

x

first EMM object. Note that this object will be changed by the function if copy=FALSE!

...

further objects of the same class as x to be combined.

copy

a logical. Copy x first? Otherwise x will be changed!

recursive

a logical. If recursive=TRUE, the function recursively descends through lists combining all their elements into a vector.

Value

Returns invisibly an object of the same class as EMM.

See Also

EMM-class,

Examples

data("16S")

## create two EMMs for different data
emm1 <- EMM("Kullback", threshold=0.1, data=Mollicutes16S+1)
emm2 <- EMM("Kullback", threshold=0.1, data=Alphaproteobacteria16S+1)

## combine the two EMMs
emm12 <- c(emm1, emm2)
## this is the same as:
## emm12 <- copy(emm1)
## c(emm12, emm2, copy=FALSE)

## recluster states so similar states in the to EMMs will be merged
emm12r <- recluster_tNN(emm12)

op <- par(mfrow = c(1, 2), pty = "s")
plot(emm12, main="Two EMMs")
plot(emm12r, main="Two EMMs (reclustered)")
par(op)

Derwent Catchment Data

Description

Data set with flow readings (in cubic meter per second) for six catchments of in the vicinity of the Derwent river in the northern UK. The data was collected daily from November 1, 1971 – January 31, 1977. The catchments are Long Bridge, Matlock Bath, Chat Sworth, What Stand Well, Ashford (Wye) and Wind Field Park (Amber).

The owner of the data is the Ridings Area Office of the Environment Agency North-East, UK.

Usage

data(Derwent)

Format

A matrix of size 1918 days times 6 catchments.

Source

UK National River Flow Archive (NRFA), https://nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/

The owner of the data is the Ridings Area Office of the Environment Agency North-East, UK.

References

Wikipedia, River Derwent, Yorkshire, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Derwent,_Yorkshire

Wikipedia, River Wye, Derbyshire, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Wye,_Derbyshire

Wikipedia, River Amber, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Amber

Examples

data(Derwent)

i <- 1
plot(Derwent[,i], type="l", main=colnames(Derwent[i]), ylab="Gauged Flows")

DSC Interface for EMM and tNN (package stream)

Description

Provides Data Stream Clusterer (DSC) interfaces for EMM and tNN so they can be used in the stream framework.

Usage

DSC_EMM(formula = NULL, threshold = 0.2, measure = "euclidean", distFun = NULL,
    centroids = identical(tolower(measure), "euclidean"),
    lambda = 0)

DSC_tNN(formula = NULL, threshold = 0.2, measure = "euclidean",
    centroids = identical(tolower(measure), "euclidean"), lambda = 0)

get_EMM(dsc)
set_EMM(dsc, x)

Arguments

formula

NULL to use all features in the stream or a model formula of the form ~ X1 + X2 to specify the features used for clustering. Only ., + and - are currently supported in the formula.

threshold

A "numeric" with the dissimilarity threshold used by the clustering algorithm for assigning a new observation to existing clusters.

measure

A "character" containing the name of the dissimilarity measure used (see dist in proxy for available measures).

distFun

Specify a function passed on as method to dist in proxy (see dist in proxy). The character string passed on as measure will be used as the measure's name.

centroids

A "logical" indicating if centroids are used for clusters. If FALSE, pseudo medians (first observation of a cluster) are used to represent a cluster.

lambda

A "numeric" specifying the rate for fading.

dsc

an object of class "DSC_EMM".

x

an object of class "EMM"

Details

DSC_tNN and DSC_EMM wrap the clustering algorithms so they can be used with the stream framework. See DSC for details.

get_EMM() and set_EMM() can be used to access the EMM object inside the DSC_EMM object.

Value

An object of class "DSC_EMM" or "DSC_tNN".

Examples

library(stream)

### tNN clustering example

stream <- DSD_Gaussians()
stream

cl <- DSC_tNN(threshold = .1)
cl

update(cl, stream, 100)
cl

get_centers(cl)
get_weights(cl)

plot(cl, stream)

## EMM clustering example
data("EMMsim")
plot(EMMsim_train, pch = NA)
lines(EMMsim_train, col = "gray")
points(EMMsim_train, pch = EMMsim_sequence_train)

stream <- DSD_Memory(EMMsim_train)
stream

cl <- DSC_EMM(threshold = 0.1, measure = "euclidean", lambda = .1)
update(cl, stream, n = 200)
cl

reset_stream(stream)
plot(cl, stream, n = 200, method = "pca")

# inspect and recluster the EMM in the DSC_EMM object
emm <- get_EMM(cl)
plot(emm)

emm <- recluster_hclust(emm, k = 4, method = "average")
plot(emm)

set_EMM(cl, emm)

reset_stream(stream)
plot(cl, stream, n = 200, method = "pca")

Creator for Class "EMM"

Description

Create a new object of class "EMM".

Usage

EMM(threshold = 0.2, measure = "euclidean", distFun = NULL, 
    centroids = identical(tolower(measure), "euclidean"), 
    lambda = 0, data = NULL)

Arguments

threshold

Object of class "numeric" with the dissimilarity threshold used by the clustering algorithm for assigning a new observation to existing clusters.

measure

Object of class "character" containing the name of the dissimilarity measure used (see dist in proxy for available measures).

distFun

Specify a function passed on as method to dist in proxy (see dist in proxy). The character string passed on as measure will be used as the measure's name.

centroids

Object of class "logical" indicating if centroids are used for clusters. If FALSE, pseudo medians (first observation of a cluster) are used to represent a cluster.

lambda

Object of class "numeric" specifying the rate for fading.

data

Initial data to build the EMM. This just calls build on the new EMM.

Value

An object of class "EMM".

See Also

EMM-class

Examples

## load EMMTraffic data
data(EMMTraffic)

## create empty EMM
emm <- EMM(threshold=0.2, measure="eJaccard", lambda=.1)
emm

## cluster some data
build(emm, EMMTraffic)
emm

## what clusters were the data points assigned to?
last_clustering(emm)

## plot the clustering as a graph
plot(emm)

Class "EMM"

Description

This class represents the extensible Markov Model. It consists of a simple data stream clustering algorithm (class "tNN") and a temporal layer (class "TRACDS").

Objects from the Class

Objects can be created using the creator function EMM or by directly calling new("EMM", ...). Most slots for the extended classes can be used as parameters for EMM.

Slots

The slots are described in corresponding the extended classes (see section Extends).

Extends

Class "tNN", directly. Class "TRACDS", directly.

Methods

copy

signature(x = "EMM"): Make a copy of the EMM object. Making explicit copies is necessary since the subclasses store information in environments which are not copied for regular assignements.

size

signature(x = "EMM"): Returns the size of the EMM (number of clusters/states).

References

M.H. Dunham, Y. Meng, J. Huang (2004): Extensible Markov Model, In: ICDM '04: Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, pp. 371–374.

See Also

build, fade, merge_clusters, plot, prune, rare_clusters, rare_transitions, remove_clusters, remove_transitions, remove_selftransitions, recluster, and score.


Synthetic Data to Demonstrate EMMs

Description

A simulated data set with four clusters in R2R^2. Each cluster is represented by a bivariate normally distributed random variable. μ\mu are the coordinates of the means of the distributions and Σ\Sigma contains the covariance matrices. Two data stream are created using a fixed sequence <1,2,1,3,4><1,2,1,3,4> through the four clusters. For the training data, the sequence is repeated 40 times (200 data points) and for the test data five times (25 data points).

The code to generate the data is shown in the Examples section below.

Usage

data(EMMsim)

Format

EMMsim_train and EMMsim_test are matrices containing the data.

EMMsim_sequence_train and EMMsim_sequence_test contain the sequence of the data through the four clusters.

Examples

data(EMMsim)
plot(EMMsim_train)
points(EMMsim_test, col = "red")

## the data was generated by
## Not run: 
set.seed(1234)

## simulated data
mu <- cbind(x = c(0, 0.2, 1, 0.9),
  y = c(0, 0.7, 1, 0.2))

sd_rho <- cbind(
  x = c(0.2, 0.15, 0.05, 0.02),
  y = c(0.1, 0.04, 0.03, 0.05),
  rho = c(0, 0.7, 0.3,-0.4)
)

Sigma <- lapply(
  1:nrow(sd_rho),
  FUN = function(i)
    rbind(
      c(sd_rho[i, "x"] ^ 2, sd_rho[i, "rho"] * sd_rho[i, "x"] * sd_rho[i, "y"]),
      c(sd_rho[i, "rho"] * sd_rho[i, "x"] * sd_rho[i, "y"], sd_rho[i, "y"] ^
          2)
    )
)

sequence <- c(1, 2, 1, 3, 4)

EMMsim_sequence_train <- rep(sequence, 40)
EMMsim_sequence_test <- rep(sequence, 5)

library("MASS")
EMMsim_train <- t(sapply(
  EMMsim_sequence_train,
  FUN = function(i)
    mvrnorm(1, mu = mu[i, ], Sigma = Sigma[[i]])
))

EMMsim_test <- t(sapply(
  rep(EMMsim_sequence_test),
  FUN = function(i)
    mvrnorm(1, mu = mu[i, ], Sigma = Sigma[[i]])
))

## End(Not run)

Hypothetical Traffic Data Set for EMM

Description

Each observation in this hypothetical data set is a vector of seven values obtained from sensors located at specific points on roads. Each sensor collects a count of the number of vehicles which have crossed this sensor in the preceding time interval.

Usage

data(EMMTraffic)

Format

A matrix with 12 observations (rows).

References

M.H. Dunham, Y. Meng, J. Huang (2004): Extensible Markov Model, In: ICDM '04: Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, pp. 371–374.

Examples

data(EMMTraffic)
EMMTraffic

Fading Cluster Structure and EMM Layer

Description

Reduces the weight of old observations in the data stream. build has a learning rate parameter lambda. If this parameter is set, build automatically fades all counts before a new data point is added. The second mechanism is to explicitly call the function~fade whenever fading is needed. This has the advantage that the overhead of manipulating all counts in the EMM can be reduced and that fading can be used in a more flexible manner. For example, if the data points are arriving at an irregular rate, fade could be called at regular time intervals (e.g., every second).

Usage

fade(x, t, lambda)

Arguments

x

an object of class "EMM". Note that this function will change x.

t

number of time intervals (if missing 1 is used)

lambda

learning rate. If lambda is missing, the learning rate specified for the EMM is used.

Details

Old data points are faded by using a weight. We define the weight for data that is tt timesteps in the past by the following strictly decreasing function:

wt=2λtw_t = 2^{-\lambda t}

Since the weight is multiplicative, it can be applied iteratively by multiplying at each time step all counts by 2λ2^{-\lambda}. For the clustering algorithm the weight of the clusters (number of data points assigned to the cluster) is faded. For the EMM the initial count vector and all transition counts are faded.

Value

Returns a reference to the changed object x.

See Also

EMM and build

Examples

data("EMMTraffic")

## For the example we use a very high learning rate
## this calls fade after each new data point
emm_l <- EMM(measure="eJaccard", threshold=0.2, lambda = 1)
build(emm_l, EMMTraffic)

## build a regular EMM for comparison
emm <- EMM(measure="eJaccard", threshold=0.2)
build(emm, EMMTraffic)

## compare the transition matrix
transition_matrix(emm)
transition_matrix(emm_l)

## compare graphs
op <- par(mfrow = c(1, 2), pty = "m")
plot(emm, main = "regular EMM")
plot(emm_l, main = "EMM with high learning rate")
par(op)

Find the EMM State/Cluster for an Observation

Description

Finds the cluster and thus the EMM states for observations.

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'tNN,matrix'
find_clusters(x, newdata, match_cluster=c("exact", "nn"), dist = FALSE)

Arguments

x

an EMM object.

newdata

a matrix/data.frame with observations.

match_cluster

find exact or nearest neighbor (nn) cluster/state. If a number is supplied then the threshold times this number is used for exact matching.

dist

also report the distance to the chosen cluster/state (as a data.frame).

Value

Returns the name of the matching clusters/states or a data.frame with columns "state" and "dist" if dist=TRUE.

See Also

EMM and tNN

Examples

data("EMMTraffic")
emm <- EMM(measure="eJaccard", threshold=0.2)
emm <- build(emm, EMMTraffic)

find_clusters(emm, EMMTraffic)
find_clusters(emm, EMMTraffic, dist=TRUE)

## add noise to the data 
set.seed(1234)
newdata <- sapply(EMMTraffic, jitter, amount=15)
## default is exact match
find_clusters(emm, newdata, dist=TRUE)
## match with nearest neighbor
find_clusters(emm, newdata, match_cluster="nn", dist=TRUE)
## exact match only if within .5 times threshold
find_clusters(emm, newdata, match_cluster=.5, dist=TRUE)
## exact match only if within 2 times threshold
find_clusters(emm, newdata, match_cluster=2, dist=TRUE)

Merge States of an EMM

Description

Merge several clusters/states of an EMM into a single cluster/state.

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'EMM,character'
merge_clusters(x, to_merge, clustering = FALSE, new_center = NULL, copy=TRUE)

Arguments

x

an "EMM" object. Note that the function will change this EMM!

to_merge

vector of names of the states/clusters to merge. The name of the first state in to_merge is used as the name for the new state representing the merged states.

clustering

is to_merge a vector with cluster assignments as created by a clustering algorithm?

new_center

supply new centers for the merged clusters. New centroids are automatically computed. If (pseudo) medoids are used, new medoids should be supplied. If none is supplied, the medoid of the cluster in to_merge which has the most assigned observations is used as the new medoid (warning: this is probably not a good medoid!)

copy

logical; make a copy of x before reclustering? Otherwise the function will change x!

Value

Returns the changed EMM with the states/clusters merged invisibly. If copy=FALSE then it returns a reference to the changes object passed as x.

Examples

data("EMMTraffic")
emm <- EMM(measure="eJaccard", threshold=0.2)
build(emm, EMMTraffic)
states(emm)

## create a new emm with states 1-3 merged
emm_m123 <- merge_clusters(emm, c("1", "2", "3"))
states(emm_m123)

Visualize EMM Objects

Description

Visualize EMM objects.

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'EMM,missing'
plot(x, y,
  method=c("igraph", "interactive", "graph", "MDS",
           "cluster_counts", "transition_counts"),
  data = NULL, parameter=NULL, ...)

Arguments

x

an EMM object.

y

unused (just for compatibility with the generic for plot in graphics)

method

see details section.

data

Project the state centers onto these data. Points which do not belong to any cluster are shown in blue.

parameter

a list of parameters for plotting (see Details section).

...

further arguments passed on to plot.default or plot.igraph.

Details

There are several methods for plotting:

"igraph" produces a graph representation of the EMM using igraph. Additional arguments like layout are passed on to plot for igraph.

"interactive" produces an interactive graph representation of the EMM (using igraph). Arguments suitable for plot.igraph in igraph can be passed on as ....

"graph" produces a graph representation of the EMM using Rgraphviz. If Rgraphviz is not installed/available then the method reverts to "igraph".

"MDS" projects the cluster centers into 2-dimensional space.

"cluster_counts" produces a barplot for cluster counts.

"transition_counts" produces a barplot for transition counts.

The following plotting parameters are currently supported (by some of the visualizations):

state_counts

represent state counts by vertex size? (default: TRUE)

arrow_width

represent transition counts/probabilities by arrow width? (default: TRUE)

arrows

use "counts" or "probabilities" for arrow width. (default: "counts")

arrow_width_multiplier, state_size_multiplier

Controls the variation of vertex sizes and edge widths (default: 1).

add_labels

add labels for centers (n/a for type = "graph").

cluster_labels

cluster labels to use instead of 1,2,....

mark_clusters

Use different markers for points depending on the state they belong to (only available for MDS when data is specified).

draw_threshold

draw a circle around state centers to indicate the area in which points are assigned to the cluster (experimental, only available for MDS when data is specified).

mark_states, mark_state_color

a vector of state names to be marked and the color(s) used for marking (default: red).

mark_transitions, mark_transitions_color

a vector of transition names in the format "3->2" to be marked and the color(s) used for marking (default: red).

For some plots (e.g., "igraph") ... is passed on to the primitive plotting function and can be used to change the plot (colors, etc.) See ? igraph.plotting. For "graph" the two special parameters "nAttrs" and "eAttrs" for node and edge attributes can be used.

See Also

EMM

Examples

data("EMMTraffic")

emm <- EMM(threshold = 0.2,
  measure = "eJaccard",
  data = EMMTraffic)

op <- par(mfrow = c(2, 2), pty = "s")

plot(emm, main = "Graph")

## Plot the graph as a tree with a set root node and an aspect ratio of 1:1.
g <- as.igraph(emm)
plot(emm, main = "Graph (tree layout)",
  layout = igraph::layout_as_tree(g, root = 1), asp = 1)

plot( emm, method = "MDS",
  main = "Graph (MDS projection)", xlim = c(-0.5, 0.5), ylim = c(-0.5, 0.5)
)

plot(emm, method = "MDS", data = EMMTraffic,
  main = "Projection of cluster \ncenters on data")
par(op)

Predict a Future State

Description

Predict a state or the probability distribution over states in nn time steps.

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'TRACDS'
predict(object, current_state = NULL, n=1, 
	probabilities = FALSE, randomized = FALSE, prior=FALSE)

Arguments

object

an "EMM"/"TRACDS" object.

current_state

use a specified current state. If NULL, the EMM's current state is used.

n

number of time steps.

probabilities

if TRUE, instead of the predicted state, the probability distribution is returned.

randomized

if TRUE, the predicted state is choosen randomly with a selection probability proportional to its transition probability

prior

add one to each transition count. This is equal to starting with a uniform prior for the transition count distribution, i.e. initially all transitions are equally likely. It also prevents the product of probabilities to be zero if a transition was never observed.

Details

Prediction is done using AnA^n where AA is the transition probability matrix maintained by the EMM. Random tie-breaking is used.

Value

The name of the predicted state or a vector with the probability distribution over all states.

See Also

transition_matrix

Examples

data("EMMTraffic")
emm <- EMM(measure="eJaccard", threshold=0.2)
emm <- build(emm, EMMTraffic)

#plot(emm) ## plot graph

## Predict state starting an state 1 after 1, 2 and 100 time intervals
## Note, state 7 is an absorbing state.
predict(emm, n=1, current_state="1")
predict(emm, n=2, current_state="1")
predict(emm, n=100, current_state="1")

## Get probability distribution
predict(emm, n=2, current_state="1", probabilities = TRUE)

Prune States and/or Transitions

Description

Simplifies an EMM and/or the clustering by removing all clusters/states and/or transitions which have a count of equal or smaller than a given threshold.

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'EMM'
prune(x, count_threshold, clusters = TRUE, transitions = FALSE,
    copy = TRUE, compact = TRUE)

rare_clusters(x, count_threshold, ...)
rare_transitions(x, count_threshold, ...)

Arguments

x

an object of class "EMM"

count_threshold

all states/edges with a count of less or equal to the threshold are removed from the model.

clusters

logical; prune clusters?

transitions

logical; prune transitions?

copy

logical; make a copy of x before reclustering? Otherwise the function will change x!

compact

logical; tries make the data structure used for the temporal model more compact after pruning.

...

further arguments (currently not used).

Value

prune returns invisibly an object of class EMM. If copy=FALSE then it returns a reference to the changes object passed as x.

rare_clusters returns a vector of names of rare clusters.

rare_transitions returns a data.frame of rare transitions.

See Also

remove_transitions, remove_clusters, compact

Examples

data("EMMTraffic")

## For the example we use a very high learning rate
emm_l <- EMM(threshold=0.2, measure="eJaccard", lambda = 1)
build(emm_l, EMMTraffic)

## show state counts and transition counts
cluster_counts(emm_l)
transition_matrix(emm_l, type="counts")

## rare state/transitions
rare_clusters(emm_l, count_threshold=0.1)
rare_transitions(emm_l, count_threshold=0.1)

## remove all states with a threshold of 0.1
emm_lr <- prune(emm_l, count_threshold=0.1)

## compare graphs
op <- par(mfrow = c(1, 2), pty = "m")
plot(emm_l, main = "EMM with high learning rate")
plot(emm_lr, main = "Simplified EMM")
par(op)

Reclustering EMM states

Description

Use various clustering methods to recluster states/clusters in an EMM. The centers of the clusters in the EMM object are used as data points by the reclustering algorithm. States/centers put by reclustering into the same cluster are merged to produce a new reclustered EMM.

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'EMM'
recluster_hclust(x, k=NULL, h=NULL, method="average", 
    ...,prune=NULL, copy=TRUE)
## S4 method for signature 'EMM'
recluster_kmeans(x, k, ..., prune=NULL, copy=TRUE)
## S4 method for signature 'EMM'
recluster_pam(x, k, ..., prune=NULL, copy=TRUE)
## S4 method for signature 'EMM'
recluster_reachability(x, h, ..., prune=NULL, copy=TRUE)
## S4 method for signature 'EMM'
recluster_tNN(x, threshold=NULL, ..., prune=NULL, copy=TRUE)
## S4 method for signature 'EMM'
recluster_transitions(x, threshold=NULL, ..., prune=NULL, copy=TRUE)

Arguments

x

an "EMM" object.

k

number of clusters.

h

heights where the dendrogram tree should be cut.

threshold

threshold used on the dissimilarity to join clusters for tNN. If no threshold is specified then the threshold stored in the EMM is used.

method

clustering method used by hclust.

...

additional arguments passed on to the clustering algorithm.

prune

logical; prune states with less than prune counts before reclustering.

copy

logical; make a copy of x before reclustering? Otherwise the function will change x!

Details

For recluster_kmeans k can also be a set of initial cluster centers (see argument centers for kmeans in package stats).

For recluster_hclust k or h can also be a vector. The result is then a list with several (nested) EMMs, one for each value.

For recluster_reachability reclusters all clusters which are reachable from each other. A cluster jj is reachable from ii if jj's center is closer to ii's center than h or if jj is reachable by any cluster reachable by ii.

For recluster_tNN reclusters such that two clusters with centers less than the threshold apart will be reclustered into a single cluster. This is useful, for example, after combining two models.

For recluster_transitions does not recluster clusters! It find groups of clusters which are overlapping (centers are less than 2 thresholds apart) and then redistributes the transition weights such that all members of one group are connected to all the members of the other group using the same weight.

Value

An object of class "EMM" or, if copy=FALSE a refernece to the changed object passed as x.

Clustering information is available as the attribute "cluster_info". The information provided depends in the clustering algorithm (see hclust, kmeans and pam).

See Also

merge_clusters, prune, kmeans, hclust, pam

Examples

data(EMMsim)
emm <- EMM(threshold = .2)
build(emm, EMMsim_train)

## do reclustering on a copy of the emm and plot dendrogram
emm_hc <- recluster_hclust(emm, h = 0.6)

attr(emm_hc, "cluster_info")

## compare original and clustered EMM
op <- par(mfrow = c(2, 2), pty = "m")   
plot(emm, method= "MDS", main ="original EMM", data = EMMsim_train) 
plot(attr(emm_hc, "cluster_info")$dendrogram)
abline(h=0.6, col="red")
plot(emm_hc, method="MDS", main ="clustered EMM", data = EMMsim_train) 
plot(emm_hc, method="MDS", main ="clustered EMM") 
par(op)

Remove States/Clusters or Transitions from an EMM

Description

Remove states/clusters or transitions from an EMM.

Usage

remove_clusters(x, to_remove, copy = TRUE)
remove_transitions(x, from, to,copy = TRUE)
remove_selftransitions(x, copy = TRUE)

Arguments

x

an EMM object.

to_remove

Names of states/clusters to remove.

from, to

Names of states for removing transitions. If to is missing from has to contain a matrix with two columns (from and to state names).

copy

logical; make a copy of x before reclustering? Otherwise the function will change x!

Details

remove_selftransitions removes the transitions from each state to itself.

Value

Returns a EMM with removed states/transitions. If copy=FALSE a reference to the object x with the states/transistions removed is returned.

Examples

data("EMMTraffic")
emm <- EMM(measure="eJaccard", threshold=0.2)
emm <- build(emm, EMMTraffic)

## remove state 3
emm_rs3 <- remove_clusters(emm, "3")

## remove transition 5->2
emm_rt52 <- remove_transitions(emm, "5", "2")

## compare EMMs
op <- par(mfrow = c(2, 2), pty = "m")
plot(emm, method = "igraph", main = "original EMM")
plot(emm_rs3, method = "igraph", main = "state 3 removed")
plot(emm_rt52, method = "igraph", main = "transition 5->2 removed")
par(op)

Score a New Sequence Given an EMM

Description

Calculates a score of how likely it is that a new sequence was generated by the same process as the sequences used to build the EMM.

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'EMM,matrix'
score(x, newdata, method = c("product", "log_sum", "sum",
        "log_odds", "supported_transitions", "supported_states",
        "sum_transitions",  "log_loss", "likelihood", "log_likelihood", "AIC"),
        match_cluster = "exact", random = FALSE, prior = TRUE, normalize = TRUE,
        initial_transition = FALSE, threshold = NA)
## S4 method for signature 'EMM,EMM'
score(x, newdata, method = c("product", "log_sum", "sum",
        "supported_transitions"), match_cluster = "exact", random = FALSE, prior = TRUE,
        initial_transition = FALSE)

Arguments

x

an EMM object.

newdata

sequence or another EMM object to score.

method

method to calculate the score (see details)

match_cluster

do the new observations have to fall within the threshold of the cluster ("exact") or is nearest neighbor ("nn") or weighted nearest neighbor (weighted) used? If match_cluster is a number n then observations need to fall within n times the clustering threshold of the cluster.

random

logical; should the order of newdata be randomized? Can be used to compare the score with the actual score.

prior

logical; add one to each transition count. This is equal to start with a count of one for each transition, i.e. initially all transitions are equally likely. It prevents the product of probabilities to be zero if a transition was never observed.

normalize

logical; normalize the score by the length of the sequence.

initial_transition

logical; include the initial transition in the computation?

threshold

minimum count threshold used by supported transitions and supported states.

Details

The scores for a new sequence xx of length ll can be computed by the following methods. For match_cluster="exact" or "nn":

"product"

Product of transition probabilities along the path of xx in the model. A single missing transition (transition probability of zero) will result in a score of 0. Use prior to avoid this.

Sproduct=i=1l1as(i),s(i+1)l1S_\mathrm{product} = \sqrt[l-1]{\prod_{i=1}^{l-1}{a_{s(i),s(i+1)}}}

where as(i),s(j)a_{s(i),s(j)} is the transition probability between the state representing positions ii and jj in the sequence.

"sum"

Average of transition probabilities along the path of xx in the model.

Ssum=1l1i=1l1as(i),s(i+1)S_\mathrm{sum} = \frac{1}{l-1} \sum_{i=1}^{l-1}{a_{s(i),s(i+1)}}

"log_sum"

Average of the log of the transition probabilities along the path of xx in the model. The ranking of the scores is equivalent to the product of probabilities, however, the calculation is more reliable since the product of probabilities might become a very small number.

A single missing transition (transition probability of zero) will result in a score of neg. infinity. Use prior to avoid this.

Slog_sum=1l1i=1l1log(as(i),s(i+1))S_\mathrm{log\_sum} = \frac{1}{l-1} \sum_{i=1}^{l-1}{\mathrm{log}(a_{s(i),s(i+1)})}

"supported_transitions"

Fraction of transitions in the new sequence xx supported (present) in the model after assigning each data point in xx to a state in the model.

Ssupported_transitions=1l1i=1l1I(as(i),s(i+1))S_\mathrm{supported\_transitions} = \frac{1}{l-1} \sum_{i=1}^{l-1}{\mathrm{I}(a_{s(i),s(i+1)})}

"supported_states"

Fraction of points in the new sequence xx for which a state (cluster) exists in the model. match_cluster is always "exact" because for "nn" this measure would always give 1. Note that this measure ignores transition information.

If threshold is given, then only states with a count greater than the given threshold are counted as supported.

"sum_transitions"

Sum of the counts on the edges in the model on the path of sequence xx normalized by the total number of transition counts in the model.

Ssum_transitions=1l1i=1l1cs(i),s(i+1)S_\mathrm{sum\_transitions} = \frac{1}{l-1} \sum_{i=1}^{l-1}c_{s(i),s(i+1)}

where cs(i),s(i+1)c_{s(i),s(i+1)} is the transition count between the state representing positions ii and jj in the sequence.

If threshold is given, then only transitions with a count greater than the given threshold are counted as supported.

"likelihood", "log_likelihood"

The likelihood of the model given the new data is the unnormalized product score (product of transition probabilities).

"log_loss"

The average log loss is defined as

sum(log2(as(i),s(i+1)))/(l1)-sum(log2(a_s(i),s(i+1)))/(l-1)

It represents the average compression rate of the new sequence given the model.

"AIC"

Akaike Information Criterion corrected for finite sample size.

2k2log(L)2k(k1)/(nk1)2k - 2log(L) 2k(k-1)/(n-k-1)

where n=l1n=l-1 and kk is the model complexity measured by the number of non-zero entries in the transition matrix. We use the likelihood of the model given by the proportion of supported transitions. AIC can be used for model selection where the smallest value indicates the preferred model.

where xix_i represents the ii-th data point in the new sequence, a(i,j)a(i,j) is the transition probability from state ii to state jj in the model, s(i)s(i) is the state the ii-th data point (xix_i) in the new sequence is assigned to. I(v)\mathrm{I(v)} is an indicator function which is 0 for v=0v=0 and 1 otherwise.

For match_cluster="weighted":

"product"

Weighted version of the product of probabilities. The weight is the similarity between a new data point and the state in the model it is assigned to.

Sweighted_product=i=1l1simil(xi,s(i))simil(xi,s(i+1))as(i),s(i+1)l1S_\mathrm{weighted\_product} = \sqrt[l-1]{\prod_{i=1}^{l-1}{\mathrm{simil}(x_i,s(i))\mathrm{simil}(x_i,s(i+1)) a_{s(i),s(i+1)}}}

"sum"

Weighted version of the sum of probabilities.

Sweighted_sum=1l1i=1l1simil(xi,s(i))simil(xi,s(i+1))as(i),s(i+1)S_\mathrm{weighted\_sum} = \frac{1}{l-1} \sum_{i=1}^{l-1}{\mathrm{simil}(x_i,s(i))\mathrm{simil}(x_i,s(i+1)) a_{s(i),s(i+1)}}

"log_sum"

Weighted version of the sum of the log of probabilities.

Sweighted_log_sum=1l1i=1l1log(simil(xi,s(i))simil(xi,s(i+1))as(i),s(i+1))S_\mathrm{weighted\_log\_sum} = \frac{1}{l-1} \sum_{i=1}^{l-1}{\mathrm{log}(\mathrm{simil}(x_i,s(i))\mathrm{simil}(x_i,s(i+1)) a_{s(i),s(i+1)})}

"supported_states"

Same as "supported_states" but instead of counting the supported states, the similarity simil(xi,s(i))\mathrm{simil}(x_i,s(i)) is used as a weight. Threshold is not implemented.

where simil()\mathrm{simil}(\cdot) is a modified and normalized similarity function given by simil(x,s)=111+ed(x,s)/t1.5.2\mathrm{simil}(x,s) = 1- \frac{1}{1+e^{-\frac{\mathrm{d}(x, s)/t -1.5}{.2}}} where dd is the distance measure and tt is the threshold that was used to create the model.

Value

A scalar score value.

See Also

transition to access transition probabilities and find_clusters for assigning observations to states/clusters.

Examples

data("EMMsim")

emm <- EMM(threshold = .2)
emm <- build(emm, EMMsim_train)

# default is method "product". The score is much higher compared to a randomized order.
score(emm, EMMsim_test)
score(emm, EMMsim_test, random = TRUE)


### create shuffled data (destroy temporal relationship)
### and create noisy data
test_shuffled <- EMMsim_test[sample(1:nrow(EMMsim_test)), ]
test_noise <- jitter(EMMsim_test, amount = .3)

### helper for plotting
mybars <- function(...) {
  oldpar <- par(mar = c(5, 10, 4, 2))
  ss <- rbind(...)
  barplot(
    ss[, ncol(ss):1],
    xlim = c(-1, 4),
    beside = TRUE,
    horiz = TRUE,
    las = 2,
    legend = rownames(ss)
  )
  par(oldpar)
}


### compare various scores
methods <- c(
  "product",
  "sum",
  "log_sum",
  "supported_states",
  "supported_transitions",
  "sum_transitions",
  "log_loss",
  "likelihood"
)

### default is exact matching
clean <-
  sapply(
    methods,
    FUN = function(m)
      score(emm, EMMsim_test, method = m)
  )

shuffled <-
  sapply(
    methods,
    FUN = function(m)
      score(emm, test_shuffled, method = m)
  )

noise <-
  sapply(
    methods,
    FUN = function(m)
      score(emm, test_noise, method = m)
  )

mybars(shuffled, noise, clean)

### weighted matching is better for noisy data
clean <-
  sapply(
    methods,
    FUN = function(m)
      score(emm, EMMsim_test, method = m,
        match = "weighted")
  )

shuffled <-
  sapply(
    methods,
    FUN = function(m)
      score(emm, test_shuffled, method = m,
        match = "weighted")
  )

noise <-
  sapply(
    methods,
    FUN = function(m)
      score(emm, test_noise, method = m,
        match = "weighted")
  )

mybars(shuffled, noise, clean)

Smooths transition counts between neighboring states/clusters

Description

Each state/cluster gets the average count if all the outgoing transitions of its neighbors (i.e., clusters which are within range x its threshold).

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'EMM'
smooth_transitions(x, range = 2, copy = TRUE)

Arguments

x

an object of class "EMM"

range

threshold multiplier for the smoothing range.

copy

logical; make a copy of x before reclustering? Otherwise the function will change x!

Value

smooth_transitions returns invisibly an object of class EMM. If copy=FALSE then it returns a reference to the changes object passed as x.

See Also

prune

Examples

data("EMMTraffic")

## learn a model
emm <- EMM(threshold=0.2, measure="eJaccard")
build(emm, EMMTraffic)

## smooth the model by adding tansitions
emm_s <- smooth_transitions(emm)

## compare graphs
op <- par(mfrow = c(1, 2), pty = "m")
plot(emm, method="MDS", main="Original")
plot(emm_s, method="MDS", main="Smoothed")
par(op)

Create a Synthetic Data Stream

Description

This function creates a synthetic data stream with data points in roughly [0,1]p[0, 1]^p by choosing points form k clusters following a sequence through these clusters. Each cluster has a density function following a d-dimensional normal distributions. In the test set outliers are introduced.

Usage

synthetic_stream(k = 10, d = 2, n_subseq = 100, p_transition = 0.5, p_swap = 0,
n_train = 5000, n_test = 1000, p_outlier = 0.01, rangeVar = c(0, 0.005))

Arguments

k

number of clusters.

d

dimensionality of data set.

n_subseq

length of subsequence which will be repeat to create the data set.

p_transition

probability that the next position in the subsequence will belong to a different cluster.

p_swap

probability that two data points are swapped. This represents measurement errors (e.g., a data points arrive out of order) or that the data stream does not exactly follow the subsequence.

n_train

size of training set (without outliers).

n_test

size of test set (with outliers).

p_outlier

probability that a data point is replaced by an outlier (a randomly chosen point in [0,1]p[0,1]^p).

rangeVar

Used to create the random covariance matrices for the clusters. See genPositiveDefMat() in clusterGeneration for details.

Details

The data generation process creates a data set consisting of k clusters in roughly [0,1]d[0,1]^d. The data points for each cluster are be drawn from a multivariate normal distribution given a random mean and a random variance/covariance matrix for each cluster. The temporal aspect is modeled by a fixed subsequence (of length n_subseq) through the k clusters. In each step in the subsequence we have a transition probability p_transition that the next data point is in the same cluster or in a randomly chosen other cluster, thus we can create slowly or fast changing data. For the complete sequence, the subsequence is repeated to create n_test/n_train data points. The data set is generated by drawing a data point from the cluster corresponding to each position in the sequence. Outliers are introduced by replacing data points in the data set with probability $p_outlier by randomly chosen data points in [0,1]d[0,1]^d. Finally, to introduce imperfection in the temporal sequence (e.g., because the data does not follow exactly a repeating sequence or because observations do not arrive in the correct order), we swap two consecutive observations with probability p_swap.

Value

A list with the following elements:

test

test data.

train

training data.

sequence_test

sequence of the test data points through the clusters.

sequence_train

sequence of the training data points through the clusters.

swap_test

index where points are swapped.

swap_train

index where points are swapped.

outlier_position

logical vector for outliers in test data.

model

centers and covariance matrices for the clusters.

Examples

## create only test data (with outliers)
ds <- synthetic_stream(n_train = 0)

## plot test data
plot(ds$test, pch = ds$sequence_test, col = "gray")
text(ds$model$mu[, 1], ds$model$mu[, 2], 1:10)

## mark outliers
points(ds$test[ds$outlier_position, ],
  pch = 3, lwd = 2, col = "red")

Class "tNN"

Description

Implements the threshold Nearest Neighbor clustering algorithm used by EMM.

Objects from the Class

Objects can be created with new() or by the creator function tNN.

Slots

measure:

Object of class "character" containing the name of the dissimilarity measure used (see dist in proxy for available measures)

centroids:

Object of class "logical" indicating if centroids are used for clusters. If FALSE, pseudo medians (first observation of a cluster) are used to represent a cluster.

threshold:

Object of class "numeric" with the dissimilarity threshold used by the NN clustering algorithm for assigning a new observation to existing clusters.

lambda:

Object of class "numeric" specifying the rate for fading.

lambda_factor:

Object of class "numeric" expressing the fading rate expressed as a factor.

tnn_d:

An environment containing the variable data for the tNN object:

centers:

Object of class "matrix" containing the cluster centers.

counts:

Object of class "numeric" with the number of observations assigned to each cluster.

var_thresholds:

Object of class "numeric" with the dissimilarity thresholds for individual clusters (usually the same as threshold).

last:

A "character" vector containing the cluster names the points for the previous call of cluster() were assigned to.

Methods

copy

signature(x = "tNN"): Make a copy of the tNN object. Making explicit copies is necessary since information is stored in an environment which is not copied for regular assignements.

cluster_centers

signature(x = "tNN"): returns the cluster centers as a matrix.

cluster_counts

signature(x = "tNN"): returns the cluster counts as a vector.

clusters

signature(x = "tNN"): returns the names of the clusters.

last_clustering

signature(x = "tNN"): returns the indices of the clusters the data points in the last cluster operation where assigned to. To save memory the last clustering information can be removed by setting the formal parameter remove to TRUE.

nclusters

signature(x = "tNN"): returns the number of clusters in the clustering.

plot

signature(x = "tNN", y = "missing"): plots the cluster centers using a scatterplot matrix (see pairs).

References

M.H. Dunham, Y. Meng, J. Huang (2004): Extensible Markov Model, In: ICDM '04: Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, pp. 371–374.

See Also

cluster for adding new data to the clustering. find_clusters to find the nearest neighbor cluster for given data points. EMM extends "tNN".


TRAC: Creating a Markov Model from a Regular Clustering

Description

Create an Markov model from a regular clustering (k-means or PAM) of sequence data.

Usage

TRAC(x, data = NULL, centers = NULL, measure = "euclidean")

Arguments

x

a clustering object (result of kmeans or PAM), a data set (a data matrix), or a vector with (integer) cluster assignments.

data

the data used for clustering (only used if x is a cluster assignment vector).

centers

if x is a cluster assignment vector, then a data.frame or matrix with the cluster centers needs to be supplies. Otherwise, centers is ignored.

measure

used distance measure.

Details

The order is inferred from the order in the original data set.

Value

A EMM object representing the clustering of sequence data.

Examples

data("EMMsim")

## using kmeans
cl <- kmeans(EMMsim_train, 10)
emm <- TRAC(cl)
emm
plot(emm, method = "MDS")

## using a cluster assignment vector (taken from the k-means clustering above)
x <- cl$cluster
emm <- TRAC(x, data = EMMsim_train)
emm
plot(emm, method = "MDS")

Class "TRACDS"

Description

Representation of the temporal structure of a data stream clustering using a extensible Markov model.

Objects from the Class

Objects can be created using the creator function TRACDS or by directly calling new("TRACDS", ...). Most slots for the extended classes can be used as parameters.

Slots

lambda:

Object of class "numeric" specifying the rate for fading.

lambda_factor:

Object of class "numeric" expressing the fading rate expressed as a factor.

tracds_d:

An environment containing all the variable data of the TRACDS object:

mm:

Object of class "SimpleMC" representing the first order Markov model of the EMM.

current_state:

Object of class "character" with the name of current state in the EMM. NA means no current state.

Methods

copy

signature(x = "TRACDS"): Make a copy of the TRACDS object. Making explicit copies is necessary since information is stored in an environment which is not copied for regular assignements.

current_state

signature(x = "TRACDS"): returns the name of the current state.

nstates

signature(x = "TRACDS"): returns the number of states.

ntransitions

signature(x = "TRACDS"): returns the number of transitions with a count larger than 0 stored in the object.

plot

signature(x = "TRACDS", y = "missing"): Plots the object as a directed graph.

states

signature(x = "TRACDS"): returns the names of the states.

transitions

signature(x = "TRACDS"): returns all transitions as a matrix of state names with a from and a to column.

Note

A TRACDS object can be coerced to igraph or graph objects using as.igraph() and as.graph().

References

Michael Hahsler and Margaret H. Dunham. Temporal structure learning for clustering massive data streams in real-time. In SIAM Conference on Data Mining (SDM11), pages 664–675. SIAM, April 2011. doi:10.1137/1.9781611972818.57

M. Hahsler, M. H. Dunham (2010): rEMM: Extensible Markov Model for Data Stream Clustering in R, Journal of Statistical Software, 35(5), 1-31, URL doi:10.18637/jss.v035.i05

M.H. Dunham, Y. Meng, J. Huang (2004): Extensible Markov Model, In: ICDM '04: Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, pp. 371–374.

See Also

Look at transition, transition_matrix and initial_transition to access the transition information in the EMM. predict is used to predict future states of an EMM. EMM extends "TRACDS".


Access Transition Probabilities/Counts in an EMM

Description

Calculates individual transition probabilities/counts or a complete transition matrix for an EMM (which contains "TRACDS").

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'TRACDS,character,character'
transition(x, from, to, 
          type = c("probability", "counts", "log_odds"), prior = TRUE)
## S4 method for signature 'TRACDS'
transition_matrix(x, 
          type = c("probability", "counts", "log_odds"), prior = TRUE)
## S4 method for signature 'TRACDS'
initial_transition(x, 
          type = c("probability", "counts", "log_odds"), prior = TRUE)

Arguments

x

an object of class "EMM"/"TRACDS".

from, to

Names a states. If to is missing, from has to contain a matrix with two columns (a from column and a to column as returned by transitions).

type

What should be calculated?

prior

add one to each transition count. This is equal to starting with a uniform prior for the transition count distribution, i.e., initially all transitions are equally likely.

Details

Log odds are calculated as ln(a/(1/n))ln(a/(1/n)) where aa is the probability of the transition and nn is the number of states in the EMM. 1/n1/n is the probability of a transition under the null model which assumes that the transition probability from each state to each other state (including staying in the same state) is the same, i.e., the null model has a transition matrix with all entries equal to 1/n1/n.

Value

A scalar (for transition), a square matrix (for transition_matrix) or a vector (for initial_transition).

See Also

EMM which contains TRACDS

Examples

data("EMMTraffic")
emm <- EMM(measure="eJaccard", threshold=0.2)
emm <- build(emm, EMMTraffic)

## get transition matrix
transition_matrix(emm, type="count", prior=FALSE)
transition_matrix(emm, type="count")
transition_matrix(emm, prior=FALSE)
transition_matrix(emm)

## get initial state probabilities
initial_transition(emm)

## access individual transition probability (state 1 -> 2)
transition(emm, "1","2")

## get counts for all existing transitions
tr <- transitions(emm)
tr
cbind(as.data.frame(tr), counts=transition(emm, tr, type="counts"))

Extract a Transition Table for a New Sequence Given an EMM

Description

Finds the state sequence of a new sequence in an EMM and returns a table with the transition probabilities or counts.

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'EMM,matrix'
transition_table(x, newdata, 
  type = c("probability", "counts", "log_odds"), 
  match_cluster = "exact", prior=TRUE, initial_transition = FALSE)

Arguments

x

an EMM object.

newdata

new sequence,

type

the measure to return.

match_cluster

do the new observations have to fall within the threshold of the cluster ("exact") or is nearest neighbor used ("nn")?

prior

add one to each transition count. This is equal to starting with a uniform prior for the transition count distribution, i.e. initially all transitions are equally likely. It also prevents the product of probabilities to be zero if a transition was never observed.

initial_transition

include the initial transition in the table?

Value

A data.frame with three columns (from state, to state and the transition probability/count.)

See Also

transition to access transition probabilities and find_clusters for assigning observations to states/clusters.

Examples

data("EMMsim")

emm <- EMM(threshold=.5)
emm <- build(emm, EMMsim_train)

head(transition_table(emm, EMMsim_test))
head(transition_table(emm, EMMsim_test, type ="prob", initial_transition=TRUE))

Update a TRACDS temporal structure with new state assignements

Description

Add a sequence of new state assignments to a TRACDS object.

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'TRACDS'
update(object, newdata, verbose=FALSE, ...)
reset(x)
compact(x)

Arguments

x, object

a TRACDS object. Note that this function changes the original object!

newdata

a vector with a state assignemnt sequence (typically produced by clustering).

verbose

logical; verbose output?

...

further arguments.

Details

update() adds a new state assignemnt sequenc to the TRACDS object by increasing the transition counts and, if needed, creating new states.

reset() resets the current state to NA for reading in a new sequence. An NA in newdata also resets the current state.

compact() reduces the size (memory) used to store the temporal transition matrix.

Value

A reference to the changed TRACDS object with the data added. Note: EMM objects store all variable data in an environment which enables us to update partial data without copying the whole object. Assignment will not create a copy! Use the provided method copy().

See Also

Class TRACDS, fade.

Examples

## create an empty TRACDS object
tracds <- TRACDS()
tracds

## update with an cluster assignment sequence
update(tracds, c(1,2,5,5,2))
tracds

plot(tracds)