beta_resp function

Beta-response family object

Returns a family object for beta-response models. The model described by such a family is characterized by a linear predictor, a link function, and the beta density for the residual variation.

The precision parameter prec of this family is a positive value such that the variance of the response given its mean $\mu$ is $\mu(1-\mu)/(1+$prec). prec is thus the precision parameter $\phi$ of Ferrari & Cribari-Neto (2004) and of the betareg package (Cribari-Neto & Zeileis 2010).

A fixed-effect residual-dispersion model can be fitted, using the resid.model argument, which is used to specify the form of the logarithm of the precision parameter (see Examples). Thus the variance of the response become $\mu(1-\mu)/(1+$exp(<specified linear expression>)).

Details

Prior weights are meaningful for this family and handled as a factor of the precision parameter (as for GLM families) hence here not as a divisor of the variance (in contrast to GLM families): the variance of the response become $\mu(1-\mu)/(1+$prec*<prior weights>). However, this feature is experimental and may be removed in the future. The fitting function's resid.model argument may be preferred to obtain the same effect, by specifying an offset(log(<prior weights>)) in its formula (given the log link used in that model). As usual in spaMM, the offset(.) argument should be a vector and any variable necessary for evaluating it should be in the data.

beta_resp(prec = stop("beta_resp's 'prec' must be specified"), link = "logit")

Arguments

• prec: Scalar (or left unspecified): precision parameter of the beta distribution.
• link: logit, probit, cloglog or cauchit link, specified by any of the available ways for GLM links (name, character string, one-element character vector, or object of class link-glm as returned by make.link).

Returns

A list, formally of class c("LLF", "family"). See LL-family for details about the structure and usage of such objects.

References

Cribari-Neto, F., & Zeileis, A. (2010). Beta Regression in R. Journal of Statistical Software, 34(2), 1-24. tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.18637/jss.v034.i02")

Ferrari SLP, Cribari-Neto F (2004). “Beta Regression for Modelling Rates and Proportions.” Journal of Applied Statistics, 31(7), 799-815.

See Also

Further examples in LL-family.

Examples

set.seed(123)
  beta_dat <- data.frame(y=runif(100),grp=sample(2,100,replace = TRUE), x_het=runif(100))
  
  fitme(y ~1+(1|grp), family=beta_resp(), data= beta_dat)
  ## same logL, halved 'prec' when prior weights=2 are used: 
  # fitme(y ~1+(1|grp), family=beta_resp(), data= beta_dat, prior.weights=rep(2,100))
  
  ## With model for residual dispersion:
  # fitme(y ~1+(1|grp), family=beta_resp(), data= beta_dat, resid.model= ~ x_het)