## Extensions and additions to vcd: Visualizing Categorical Data

Version 0.8-0

This package provides additional data sets, documentation, and a few functions designed to extend the vcd package for Visualizing Categorical Data and the gnm package for Generalized Nonlinear Models. In particular, vcdExtra extends mosaic, assoc and sieve plots from vcd to handle glm() and gnm() models and adds a 3D version in mosaic3d().

vcdExtra is now a support package for the book Discrete Data Analysis with R (DDAR) by Michael Friendly and David Meyer. There is also a web site for DDAR with all figures and code samples from the book.

### Details

The main purpose of this package is to serve as a sandbox for introducing extensions of mosaic plots and related graphical methods that apply to loglinear models fitted using glm() and related, generalized nonlinear models fitted with gnm() in the gnm package. A related purpose is to fill in some holes in the analysis of categorical data in R, not provided in base R, vcd, or other commonly used packages.

• The method mosaic.glm() extends the mosaic.loglm() method in the vcd package to this wider class of models. This method also works for the generalized nonlinear models fit with the gnm package, including models for square tables and models with multiplicative associations.

• mosaic3d() introduces a 3D generalization of mosaic displays using the rgl package.

• A new class, glmlist, is introduced for working with collections of glm objects, e.g., Kway() for fitting all K-way models from a basic marginal model, and LRstats() for brief statistical summaries of goodness-of-fit for a collection of models.

• For square tables with ordered factors, Crossings() supplements the specification of terms in model formulas using Symm(), Diag(), Topo(), etc. in the gnm package.

• many new data sets; use datasets("vcdExtra") to see a list;
• a tutorial vignette. In the installed package, it can be viewed using vignette("vcd-tutorial", package = "vcdExtra");
• a few useful utility functions for manipulating categorical data sets and working with models for categorical data.

## Installation

Get the released version from CRAN:

 install.packages("vcdExtra")

The development version can be installed to your R library directly from the GitHub repo via:

 if (!require(remotes)) install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("friendly/vcdExtra", build_vignettes = TRUE)

## Examples

The dataset Mental is a data frame frequency table representing the cross-classification of mental health status (mental) of 1660 young New York residents by their parents’ socioeconomic status (ses). Both are ordered factors.

data(Mental)
str(Mental)
## 'data.frame':    24 obs. of  3 variables:
##  $ses : Ord.factor w/ 6 levels "1"<"2"<"3"<"4"<..: 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 ... ##$ mental: Ord.factor w/ 4 levels "Well"<"Mild"<..: 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 ...
##  $Freq : int 64 94 58 46 57 94 54 40 57 105 ... # show as frequency table (Mental.tab <- xtabs(Freq ~ ses+mental, data=Mental)) ## mental ## ses Well Mild Moderate Impaired ## 1 64 94 58 46 ## 2 57 94 54 40 ## 3 57 105 65 60 ## 4 72 141 77 94 ## 5 36 97 54 78 ## 6 21 71 54 71 These examples illustrate fitting loglinear models using glm() and models for structured associations taking ordinality into account. #### Independence model Fit the independence model, Freq ~ mental+ses. This does not take ordinality into account. indep <- glm(Freq ~ mental+ses, family = poisson, data = Mental) LRstats(indep) ## Likelihood summary table: ## AIC BIC LR Chisq Df Pr(>Chisq) ## indep 209.59 220.19 47.418 15 3.155e-05 *** ## --- ## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1 mosaic.glm() is the mosaic method for glm objects. The default mosaic display for these data: mosaic(indep) It is usually better to use standardized residuals in mosaic displays. Here we also add longer labels for the table factors and display the values of residuals in the cells. The formula, ~ ses + mental here gives the order of the factors in the mosaic display, not the statistical model for independence. That is, the unit square is first split by ses, then by mental within each level of ses. # labels for table factors long.labels <- list(set_varnames = c(mental="Mental Health Status", ses="Parent SES")) mosaic(indep, ~ ses + mental, residuals_type="rstandard", labeling_args = long.labels, labeling=labeling_residuals) the opposite-corner pattern of the residuals clearly shows that association between Parent SES and mental health depends on the ordered levels of the factors. #### Ordinal models Ordinal models use numeric scores for the row and/or column variables. The simplest models use equally spaced integer scores. Using these, the term Rscore:Cscore represents an association constrained to be linear x linear; that is, the slopes for mental health status is assumed to vary linearly with Parent SES. # fit linear x linear (uniform) association. Use integer scores for rows/cols Cscore <- as.numeric(Mental$ses)
Rscore <- as.numeric(Mental\$mental)

linlin <- glm(Freq ~ mental + ses + Rscore:Cscore,
family = poisson, data = Mental)
mosaic(linlin, ~ ses + mental,
residuals_type="rstandard",
labeling_args = long.labels,
labeling=labeling_residuals,
suppress=1,
main="Lin x Lin model")

Note that the test for linear x linear association consumes only 1 degree of freedom, compared to the (r-1)*(c-1) = 15 degrees of freedom for general association.

anova(linlin, test="Chisq")
## Analysis of Deviance Table
##
##
## Response: Freq
##
## Terms added sequentially (first to last)
##
##
##               Df Deviance Resid. Df Resid. Dev  Pr(>Chi)
## NULL                             23    217.400
## mental         3  113.525        20    103.875 < 2.2e-16 ***
## ses            5   56.457        15     47.418 6.543e-11 ***
## Rscore:Cscore  1   37.523        14      9.895 9.035e-10 ***
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1

Other models are possible between the independence model, Freq ~ mental + ses, and the saturated model Freq ~ mental + ses + mental:ses. The update.glm() method make these easy to specify, as addition of terms to the independence model.

# use update.glm method to fit other models

linlin <- update(indep, . ~ . + Rscore:Cscore)
roweff <- update(indep, . ~ . + mental:Cscore)
coleff <- update(indep, . ~ . + Rscore:ses)
rowcol <- update(indep, . ~ . + Rscore:ses + mental:Cscore)

Compare the models: For glm objects, the print and summary methods give too much information if all one wants to see is a brief summary of model goodness of fit, and there is no easy way to display a compact comparison of model goodness of fit for a collection of models fit to the same data.

LRstats() provides a brief summary for one or more models fit to the same dataset. The likelihood ratio $\dpi{110}&space;\bg_white&space;\chi^2$ values (LR Chisq)test lack of fit. By these tests, none of the ordinal models show significant lack of fit. By the AIC and BIC statistics, the linlin model is the best, combining parsimony and goodness of fit.

LRstats(indep, linlin, roweff, coleff, rowcol)
## Likelihood summary table:
##           AIC    BIC LR Chisq Df Pr(>Chisq)
## indep  209.59 220.19   47.418 15  3.155e-05 ***
## linlin 174.07 185.85    9.895 14     0.7698
## roweff 174.45 188.59    6.281 12     0.9013
## coleff 179.00 195.50    6.829 10     0.7415
## rowcol 179.22 198.07    3.045  8     0.9315
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1

The anova.glm() function gives tests of nested models.

anova(indep, linlin, roweff, test = "Chisq")
## Analysis of Deviance Table
##
## Model 1: Freq ~ mental + ses
## Model 2: Freq ~ mental + ses + Rscore:Cscore
## Model 3: Freq ~ mental + ses + mental:Cscore
##   Resid. Df Resid. Dev Df Deviance  Pr(>Chi)
## 1        15     47.418
## 2        14      9.895  1   37.523 9.035e-10 ***
## 3        12      6.281  2    3.614    0.1641
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1

## References

Friendly, M. & Meyer, D. (2016). Discrete Data Analysis with R: Visualization and Modeling Techniques for Categorical and Count Data. Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall/CRC.