NAG C Library Function Document

nag_rand_field_2d_user_setup (g05zqc) performs the setup required in order to simulate stationary Gaussian random fields in two dimensions, for a user-defined variogram, using the circulant embedding method. Specifically, the eigenvalues of the extended covariance matrix (or embedding matrix) are calculated, and their square roots output, for use by nag_rand_field_2d_generate (g05zsc), which simulates the random field.

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Specification

#include <nag.h>

#include <nagg05.h>

void

nag_rand_field_2d_user_setup (const Integer ns[], double xmin, double xmax, double ymin, double ymax, const Integer maxm[], double var,

void	(cov2)(double x, double y, double gamma, Nag_Comm *comm),

Nag_Parity parity, Nag_EmbedPad pad, Nag_EmbedScale corr, double lam[], double xx[], double yy[], Integer m[], Integer *approx, double *rho, Integer *icount, double eig[], Nag_Comm *comm, NagError *fail)

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Description

A two-dimensional random field

Z (x)

ℝ^{2}

is a function which is random at every point

x \in ℝ^{2}

, so

Z (x)

is a random variable for each

x

. The random field has a mean function

μ (x) = 𝔼 [Z (x)]

and a symmetric positive semidefinite covariance function

C (x, y) = 𝔼 [(Z (x) - μ (x)) (Z (y) - μ (y))]

Z (x)

is a Gaussian random field if for any choice of

n \in ℕ

and

x_{1}, \dots, x_{n} \in ℝ^{2}

, the random vector

{[Z (x_{1}), \dots, Z (x_{n})]}^{T}

follows a multivariate Normal distribution, which would have a mean vector

\tilde{μ}

with entries

{\tilde{μ}}_{i} = μ (x_{i})

and a covariance matrix

\tilde{C}

with entries

{\tilde{C}}_{i j} = C (x_{i}, x_{j})

. A Gaussian random field

Z (x)

is stationary if

μ (x)

is constant for all

x \in ℝ^{2}

and

C (x, y) = C (x + a, y + a)

for all

x, y, a \in ℝ^{2}

and hence we can express the covariance function

C (x, y)

as a function

γ

of one variable:

C (x, y) = γ (x - y)

γ

is known as a variogram (or more correctly, a semivariogram) and includes the multiplicative factor

σ^{2}

representing the variance such that

γ (0) = σ^{2}

The functions nag_rand_field_2d_user_setup (g05zqc) and nag_rand_field_2d_generate (g05zsc) are used to simulate a two-dimensional stationary Gaussian random field, with mean function zero and variogram

γ (x)

, over a domain

[x_{\min}, x_{\max}] \times [y_{\min}, y_{\max}]

, using an equally spaced set of

N_{1} \times N_{2}

points;

N_{1}

points in the

x

-direction and

N_{2}

points in the

y

-direction. The problem reduces to sampling a Normal random vector

X

of size

N_{1} \times N_{2}

, with mean vector zero and a symmetric covariance matrix

A

, which is an

N_{2}

N_{2}

block Toeplitz matrix with Toeplitz blocks of size

N_{1}

N_{1}

. Since

A

is in general expensive to factorize, a technique known as the circulant embedding method is used.

A

is embedded into a larger, symmetric matrix

B

, which is an

M_{2}

M_{2}

block circulant matrix with circulant blocks of size

M_{1}

M_{1}

, where

M_{1} \geq 2 (N_{1} - 1)

and

M_{2} \geq 2 (N_{2} - 1)

B

can now be factorized as

B = W Λ W^{*} = R^{*} R

, where

W

is the two-dimensional Fourier matrix (

W^{*}

is the complex conjugate of

W

Λ

is the diagonal matrix containing the eigenvalues of

B

and

R = Λ^{\frac{1}{2}} W^{*}

B

is known as the embedding matrix. The eigenvalues can be calculated by performing a discrete Fourier transform of the first row (or column) of

B

and multiplying by

M_{1} \times M_{2}

, and so only the first row (or column) of

B

is needed – the whole matrix does not need to be formed.

The symmetry of

A

as a block matrix, and the symmetry of each block of

A

, depends on whether the variogram

γ

is even or not.

γ

is even in its first coordinate if

γ ({[{- x}_{1}, x_{2}]}^{T}) = γ ({[x_{1}, x_{2}]}^{T})

, even in its second coordinate if

γ ({[x_{1}, {- x}_{2}]}^{T}) = γ ({[x_{1}, x_{2}]}^{T})

, and even if it is even in both coordinates (in two dimensions it is impossible for

γ

to be even in one coordinate and uneven in the other). If

γ

is even then

A

is a symmetric block matrix and has symmetric blocks; if

γ

is uneven then

A

is not a symmetric block matrix and has non-symmetric blocks. In the uneven case,

M_{1}

and

M_{2}

are set to be odd in order to guarantee symmetry in

B

As long as all of the values of

Λ

are non-negative (i.e.,

B

is positive semidefinite),

B

is a covariance matrix for a random vector

Y

which has

M_{2}

blocks of size

M_{1}

. Two samples of

Y

can now be simulated from the real and imaginary parts of

R^{*} (U + i V)

, where

U

and

V

have elements from the standard Normal distribution. Since

R^{*} (U + i V) = W Λ^{\frac{1}{2}} (U + i V)

, this calculation can be done using a discrete Fourier transform of the vector

Λ^{\frac{1}{2}} (U + i V)

. Two samples of the random vector

X

can now be recovered by taking the first

N_{1}

elements of the first

N_{2}

blocks of each sample of

Y

– because the original covariance matrix

A

is embedded in

B

X

will have the correct distribution.

B

is not positive semidefinite, larger embedding matrices

B

can be tried; however if the size of the matrix would have to be larger than maxm, an approximation procedure is used. We write

Λ = Λ_{+} + Λ_{-}

, where

Λ_{+}

and

Λ_{-}

contain the non-negative and negative eigenvalues of

B

respectively. Then

B

is replaced by

ρ B_{+}

where

B_{+} = W Λ_{+} W^{*}

and

ρ \in (0, 1]

is a scaling factor. The error

ε

in approximating the distribution of the random field is given by

ε = \sqrt{\frac{{(1 - ρ)}^{2} trace Λ + ρ^{2} trace Λ_{-}}{M}} .

Three choices for

ρ

are available, and are determined by the input argument corr:

setting $corr = Nag_EmbedScaleTraces$ sets
$ρ = \frac{trace Λ}{trace Λ_{+}},$
setting $corr = Nag_EmbedScaleSqrtTraces$ sets
$ρ = \sqrt{\frac{trace Λ}{trace Λ_{+}}},$
setting $corr = Nag_EmbedScaleOne$ sets $ρ = 1$ .

nag_rand_field_2d_user_setup (g05zqc) finds a suitable positive semidefinite embedding matrix

B

and outputs its sizes in the vector m and the square roots of its eigenvalues in lam. If approximation is used, information regarding the accuracy of the approximation is output. Note that only the first row (or column) of

B

is actually formed and stored.

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References

Dietrich C R and Newsam G N (1997) Fast and exact simulation of stationary Gaussian processes through circulant embedding of the covariance matrix SIAM J. Sci. Comput. 18 1088–1107

Schlather M (1999) Introduction to positive definite functions and to unconditional simulation of random fields Technical Report ST 99–10 Lancaster University

Wood A T A and Chan G (1994) Simulation of stationary Gaussian processes in

{[0, 1]}^{d}

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 3(4) 409–432

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Arguments

1: $ns [2]$ – const IntegerInput

On entry: the number of sample points to use in each direction, with

ns [0]

sample points in the

x

-direction,

N_{1}

and

ns [1]

sample points in the

y

-direction,

N_{2}

. The total number of sample points on the grid is therefore

ns [0] \times ns [1]

Constraints:

$ns [0] \geq 1$ ;
$ns [1] \geq 1$ .

2: $xmin$ – doubleInput

On entry: the lower bound for the

x

-coordinate, for the region in which the random field is to be simulated.

Constraint:

xmin < xmax

3: $xmax$ – doubleInput

On entry: the upper bound for the

x

-coordinate, for the region in which the random field is to be simulated.

Constraint:

xmin < xmax

4: $ymin$ – doubleInput

On entry: the lower bound for the

y

-coordinate, for the region in which the random field is to be simulated.

Constraint:

ymin < ymax

5: $ymax$ – doubleInput

On entry: the upper bound for the

y

-coordinate, for the region in which the random field is to be simulated.

Constraint:

ymin < ymax

6: $maxm [2]$ – const IntegerInput

On entry: determines the maximum size of the circulant matrix to use – a maximum of

maxm [0]

elements in the

x

-direction, and a maximum of

maxm [1]

elements in the

y

-direction. The maximum size of the circulant matrix is thus

maxm [0]

\times

maxm [1]

Constraints:

if $parity = Nag_Even$ , $maxm [i] \geq 2^{k}$ , where $k$ is the smallest integer satisfying $2^{k} \geq 2 (ns [i] - 1)$ , for $i = 0, 1$ ;
if $parity = Nag_Odd$ , $maxm [i] \geq 3^{k}$ , where $k$ is the smallest integer satisfying $3^{k} \geq 2 (ns [i] - 1)$ , for $i = 0, 1$ .

7: $var$ – doubleInput

On entry: the multiplicative factor

σ^{2}

of the variogram

γ (x)

Constraint:

var \geq 0.0

8: $cov2$ – function, supplied by the userExternal Function

cov2 must evaluate the variogram

γ (x)

for all

x

parity = Nag_Odd

, and for all

x

with non-negative entries if

parity = Nag_Even

. The value returned in gamma is multiplied internally by var.

The specification of cov2 is:

void	cov2 (double x, double y, double gamma, Nag_Comm comm)

1: $x$ – doubleInput

On entry: the coordinate

x

at which the variogram

γ (x)

is to be evaluated.

2: $y$ – doubleInput

On entry: the coordinate

y

at which the variogram

γ (x)

is to be evaluated.

3: $gamma$ – double *Output

On exit: the value of the variogram

γ (x)

4: $comm$ – Nag_Comm *

Pointer to structure of type Nag_Comm; the following members are relevant to cov2.

user – double *
iuser – Integer *
p – Pointer: The type Pointer will be void *. Before calling nag_rand_field_2d_user_setup (g05zqc) you may allocate memory and initialize these pointers with various quantities for use by cov2 when called from nag_rand_field_2d_user_setup (g05zqc) (see Section 3.3.1.1 in How to Use the NAG Library and its Documentation).

Note: cov2 should not return floating-point NaN (Not a Number) or infinity values, since these are not handled by nag_rand_field_2d_user_setup (g05zqc). If your code inadvertently does return any NaNs or infinities, nag_rand_field_2d_user_setup (g05zqc) is likely to produce unexpected results.

9: $parity$ – Nag_ParityInput

On entry: indicates whether the covariance function supplied is even or uneven.

$parity = Nag_Odd$: The covariance function is uneven.
$parity = Nag_Even$: The covariance function is even.

Constraint:

parity = Nag_Odd

Nag_Even

10: $pad$ – Nag_EmbedPadInput

On entry: determines whether the embedding matrix is padded with zeros, or padded with values of the variogram. The choice of padding may affect how big the embedding matrix must be in order to be positive semidefinite.

$pad = Nag_EmbedPadZeros$: The embedding matrix is padded with zeros.
$pad = Nag_EmbedPadValues$: The embedding matrix is padded with values of the variogram.

Suggested value:

pad = Nag_EmbedPadValues

Constraint:

pad = Nag_EmbedPadZeros

Nag_EmbedPadValues

11: $corr$ – Nag_EmbedScaleInput

On entry: determines which approximation to implement if required, as described in Section 3.

Suggested value:

corr = Nag_EmbedScaleTraces

Constraint:

corr = Nag_EmbedScaleTraces

Nag_EmbedScaleSqrtTraces

Nag_EmbedScaleOne

12: $lam [maxm [0] \times maxm [1]]$ – doubleOutput

On exit: contains the square roots of the eigenvalues of the embedding matrix.

13: $xx [ns [0]]$ – doubleOutput

On exit: the points of the

x

-coordinates at which values of the random field will be output.

14: $yy [ns [1]]$ – doubleOutput

On exit: the points of the

y

-coordinates at which values of the random field will be output.

15: $m [2]$ – IntegerOutput

On exit:

m [0]

contains

M_{1}

, the size of the circulant blocks and

m [1]

contains

M_{2}

, the number of blocks, resulting in a final square matrix of size

M_{1} \times M_{2}

16: $approx$ – Integer *Output

On exit: indicates whether approximation was used.

$approx = 0$: No approximation was used.
$approx = 1$: Approximation was used.

17: $rho$ – double *Output

On exit: indicates the scaling of the covariance matrix.

rho = 1.0

unless approximation was used with

corr = Nag_EmbedScaleTraces

Nag_EmbedScaleSqrtTraces

18: $icount$ – Integer *Output

On exit: indicates the number of negative eigenvalues in the embedding matrix which have had to be set to zero.

19: $eig [3]$ – doubleOutput

On exit: indicates information about the negative eigenvalues in the embedding matrix which have had to be set to zero.

eig [0]

contains the smallest eigenvalue,

eig [1]

contains the sum of the squares of the negative eigenvalues, and

eig [2]

contains the sum of the absolute values of the negative eigenvalues.

20: $comm$ – Nag_Comm *

The NAG communication argument (see Section 3.3.1.1 in How to Use the NAG Library and its Documentation).

21: $fail$ – NagError *Input/Output

The NAG error argument (see Section 3.7 in How to Use the NAG Library and its Documentation).

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Error Indicators and Warnings

NE_ALLOC_FAIL: Dynamic memory allocation failed.
See Section 2.3.1.2 in How to Use the NAG Library and its Documentation for further information.
NE_BAD_PARAM: On entry, argument $〈value〉$ had an illegal value.
NE_INT_ARRAY: On entry, $maxm = [〈value〉, 〈value〉]$ .
Constraint: the minima for maxm are $[〈value〉, 〈value〉]$ .
Where, if $parity = Nag_Even$ , the minimum calculated value of $maxm [i - 1]$ is given by $2^{k}$ , where $k$ is the smallest integer satisfying $2^{k} \geq 2 (ns [i - 1] - 1)$ , and if $parity = Nag_Odd$ , the minimum calculated value of $maxm [i - 1]$ is given by $3^{k}$ , where $k$ is the smallest integer satisfying $3^{k} \geq 2 (ns [i - 1] - 1)$ , for $i = 1, 2$ .

On entry, $ns = [〈value〉, 〈value〉]$ .
Constraint: $ns [0] \geq 1$ , $ns [1] \geq 1$ .
NE_INTERNAL_ERROR: An internal error has occurred in this function. Check the function call and any array sizes. If the call is correct then please contact NAG for assistance.
See Section 2.7.6 in How to Use the NAG Library and its Documentation for further information.
NE_NO_LICENCE: Your licence key may have expired or may not have been installed correctly.
See Section 2.7.5 in How to Use the NAG Library and its Documentation for further information.
NE_REAL: On entry, $var = 〈value〉$ .
Constraint: $var \geq 0.0$ .
NE_REAL_2: On entry, $xmin = 〈value〉$ and $xmax = 〈value〉$ .
Constraint: $xmin < xmax$ .

On entry, $ymin = 〈value〉$ and $ymax = 〈value〉$ .
Constraint: $ymin < ymax$ .

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Accuracy

If on exit

approx = 1

, see the comments in Section 3 regarding the quality of approximation; increase the values in maxm to attempt to avoid approximation.

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Parallelism and Performance

nag_rand_field_2d_user_setup (g05zqc) is threaded by NAG for parallel execution in multithreaded implementations of the NAG Library.

nag_rand_field_2d_user_setup (g05zqc) makes calls to BLAS and/or LAPACK routines, which may be threaded within the vendor library used by this implementation. Consult the documentation for the vendor library for further information.

Please consult the x06 Chapter Introduction for information on how to control and interrogate the OpenMP environment used within this function. Please also consult the Users' Note for your implementation for any additional implementation-specific information.

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Further Comments

None.

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Example

This example calls nag_rand_field_2d_user_setup (g05zqc) to calculate the eigenvalues of the embedding matrix for

25

sample points on a

5

5

grid of a two-dimensional random field characterized by the symmetric stable variogram:

γ (x) = σ^{2} \exp (- {(x^{'})}^{ν}),

where

x^{'} = |\frac{x}{ℓ_{1}} + \frac{y}{ℓ_{2}}|

, and

ℓ_{1}

ℓ_{2}

and

ν

are parameters.

It should be noted that the symmetric stable variogram is one of the pre-defined variograms available in nag_rand_field_2d_predef_setup (g05zrc). It is used here purely for illustrative purposes.

NAG C Library Function Document

nag_rand_field_2d_user_setup (g05zqc)

▸▿ Contents

1 Purpose

2 Specification

3 Description

4 References

5 Arguments

6 Error Indicators and Warnings

7 Accuracy

8 Parallelism and Performance

9 Further Comments

10 Example

10.1 Program Text

10.2 Program Data

10.3 Program Results

1

Purpose

2

Specification

3

Description

4

References

5

Arguments

6

Error Indicators and Warnings

7

Accuracy

8

Parallelism and Performance

9

Further Comments

10

Example

10.1

Program Text

10.2

Program Data

10.3

Program Results