Fit the multivariate Poisson lognormal model with a variational algorithm. Use the (g)lm syntax for model specification (covariates, offsets, weights).

PLN(formula, data, subset, weights, control = list())

## Arguments

formula

an object of class "formula": a symbolic description of the model to be fitted.

data

an optional data frame, list or environment (or object coercible by as.data.frame to a data frame) containing the variables in the model. If not found in data, the variables are taken from environment(formula), typically the environment from which PLN is called.

subset

an optional vector specifying a subset of observations to be used in the fitting process.

weights

an optional vector of observation weights to be used in the fitting process.

control

a list for controlling the optimization. See details.

## Value

an R6 object with class PLNfit

## Details

The parameter control is a list controlling the optimization with the following entries:

• "covariance" character setting the model for the covariance matrix. Either "full", "diagonal", "spherical" or "genetic". Default is "full".

• "corr_matrix": a symmetric positive definite correlation matrix used for the "genetic" model of covariance. Useless in other cases

• "trace" integer for verbosity.

• "inception" Set up the initialization. By default, the model is initialized with a multivariate linear model applied on log-transformed data, and with the same formula as the one provided by the user. However, the user can provide a PLNfit (typically obtained from a previous fit), which sometimes speeds up the inference.

• "ftol_rel" stop when an optimization step changes the objective function by less than ftol multiplied by the absolute value of the parameter. Default is 1e-6 when n < p, 1e-8 otherwise.

• "ftol_abs" stop when an optimization step changes the objective function by less than ftol multiplied by the absolute value of the parameter. Default is 0

• "xtol_rel" stop when an optimization step changes every parameters by less than xtol multiplied by the absolute value of the parameter. Default is 1e-6

• "xtol_abs" stop when an optimization step changes every parameters by less than xtol multiplied by the absolute value of the parameter. Default is 0

• "maxeval" stop when the number of iteration exceeds maxeval. Default is 10000

• "maxtime" stop when the optimization time (in seconds) exceeds maxtime. Default is -1 (no restriction)

• "algorithm" the optimization method used by NLOPT among LD type, i.e. "CCSAQ", "MMA", "LBFGS", "VAR1", "VAR2". See NLOPT documentation for further details. Default is "CCSAQ".

The class PLNfit

## Examples

data(trichoptera)
trichoptera <- prepare_data(trichoptera$Abundance, trichoptera$Covariate)
myPLN <- PLN(Abundance ~ 1, data = trichoptera)
#>
#>  Initialization...
#>  Adjusting a PLN model with full covariance model
#>  Post-treatments...
#>  DONE!