NAG Library Routine Document

Integer, Intent (In)	::	n
Integer, Intent (Inout)	::	ifail
Real (Kind=nag_wp), Intent (In)	::	x(n), y(n), xmiss, ymiss
Real (Kind=nag_wp), Intent (Out)	::	result(21)

C Header Interface

#include <nagmk26.h>

void	g02cdf_ (const Integer n, const double x[], const double y[], const double xmiss, const double ymiss, double result[], Integer ifail)

3

Description

g02cdf fits a straight line of the form

y = b x

to those of the data points

(x_{1}, y_{1}), (x_{2}, y_{2}), \dots, (x_{n}, y_{n})

that do not include missing values, such that

y_{i} = b x_{i} + e_{i}

for those

(x_{i}, y_{i})

, for

i = 1, 2, \dots, n (n \geq 2)

which do not include missing values.

The routine eliminates all pairs of observations

(x_{i}, y_{i})

which contain a missing value for either

x

y

, and then calculates the regression coefficient,

b

, and various other statistical quantities by minimizing the sum of the

e_{i}^{2}

over those cases remaining in the calculations.

The input data consists of the

n

pairs of observations

(x_{1}, y_{1}), (x_{2}, y_{2}), \dots, (x_{n}, y_{n})

on the independent variable

x

and the dependent variable

y

In addition two values,

xm

and

ym

, are given which are considered to represent missing observations for

x

and

y

respectively. (See Section 7).

Let

w_{i} = 0

, if the

i

th observation of either

x

y

is missing, i.e., if

x_{i} = xm

and/or

y_{i} = ym

; and

w_{i} = 1

otherwise, for

i = 1, 2, \dots, n

The quantities calculated are:

(a)

Means:

\bar{x} = \frac{\sum_{i = 1}^{n} w_{i} x_{i}}{\sum_{i = 1}^{n} w_{i}}; \bar{y} = \frac{\sum_{i = 1}^{n} w_{i} y_{i}}{\sum_{i = 1}^{n} w_{i}} .

(b)

Standard deviations:

s_{x} = \sqrt{\frac{\sum_{i = 1}^{n} w_{i} {(x_{i} - \bar{x})}^{2}}{\sum_{i = 1}^{n} w_{i} - 1}}; s_{y} = \sqrt{\frac{\sum_{i = 1}^{n} w_{i} {(y_{i} - \bar{y})}^{2}}{\sum_{i = 1}^{n} w_{i} - 1}} .

(c)

Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient:

r = \frac{\sum_{i = 1}^{n} w_{i} (x_{i} - \bar{x}) (y_{i} - \bar{y})}{\sum_{i = 1}^{n} w_{i} {(x_{i} - \bar{x})}^{2} \sum_{i = 1}^{n} w_{i} {(y_{i} - \bar{y})}^{2}} .

(d)

The regression coefficient,

b

b = \frac{\sum_{i = 1}^{n} w_{i} x_{i} y_{i}}{\sum_{i = 1}^{n} w_{i} x_{i}^{2}} .

(e)

The sum of squares attributable to the regression,

S S R

, the sum of squares of deviations about the regression,

S S D

, and the total sum of squares,

S S T

S S T = \sum_{i = 1}^{n} w_{i} y_{i}^{2}; S S D = \sum_{i = 1}^{n} w_{i} {(y_{i} - b x_{i})}^{2}; S S R = S S T - S S D .

(f)

The degrees of freedom attributable to the regression,

D F R

, the degrees of freedom of deviations about the regression,

D F D

, and the total degrees of freedom,

D F T

D F T = \sum_{i = 1}^{n} w_{i}; D F D = \sum_{i = 1}^{n} w_{i} - 1; D F R = 1 .

(g)

The mean square attributable to the regression,

M S R

, and the mean square of deviations about the regression,

M S D

M S R = S S R / D F R; M S D = S S D / D F D .

(h)

The

F

value for the analysis of variance:

F = M S R / M S D .

(i)

The standard error of the regression coefficient:

s e (b) = \sqrt{\frac{M S D}{\sum_{i = 1}^{n} w_{i} x_{i}^{2}}} .

(j)

The

t

value for the regression coefficient:

t (b) = \frac{b}{s e (b)} .

(k)

The number of observations used in the calculations:

n_{c} = \sum_{i = 1}^{n} w_{i} .

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References

Draper N R and Smith H (1985) Applied Regression Analysis (2nd Edition) Wiley

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Arguments

1: $n$ – IntegerInput

On entry:

n

, the number of pairs of observations.

Constraint:

n \geq 2

2: $x (n)$ – Real (Kind=nag_wp) arrayInput

On entry:

x (i)

must contain

x_{i}

, for

i = 1, 2, \dots, n

3: $y (n)$ – Real (Kind=nag_wp) arrayInput

On entry:

y (i)

must contain

y_{i}

, for

i = 1, 2, \dots, n

4: $xmiss$ – Real (Kind=nag_wp)Input

On entry: the value

x m

, which is to be taken as the missing value for the variable

x

(see Section 7).

5: $ymiss$ – Real (Kind=nag_wp)Input

On entry: the value

y m

, which is to be taken as the missing value for the variable

y

(see Section 7).

6: $result (21)$ – Real (Kind=nag_wp) arrayOutput

On exit: the following information:

$result (1)$	$\bar{x}$ , the mean value of the independent variable, $x$ ;
$result (2)$	$\bar{y}$ , the mean value of the dependent variable, $y$ ;
$result (3)$	$s_{x}$ , the standard deviation of the independent variable, $x$ ;
$result (4)$	$s_{y}$ , the standard deviation of the dependent variable, $y$ ;
$result (5)$	$r$ , the Pearson product-moment correlation between the independent variable $x$ and the dependent variable, $y$ ;
$result (6)$	$b$ , the regression coefficient;
$result (7)$	the value $0.0$ ;
$result (8)$	$s e (b)$ , the standard error of the regression coefficient;
$result (9)$	the value $0.0$ ;
$result (10)$	$t (b)$ , the $t$ value for the regression coefficient;
$result (11)$	the value $0.0$ ;
$result (12)$	$S S R$ , the sum of squares attributable to the regression;
$result (13)$	$D F R$ , the degrees of freedom attributable to the regression;
$result (14)$	$M S R$ , the mean square attributable to the regression;
$result (15)$	$F$ , the $F$ value for the analysis of variance;
$result (16)$	$S S D$ , the sum of squares of deviations about the regression;
$result (17)$	$D F D$ , the degrees of freedom of deviations about the regression;
$result (18)$	$M S D$ , the mean square of deviations about the regression;
$result (19)$	$S S T$ , the total sum of squares
$result (20)$	$D F T$ , the total degrees of freedom;
$result (21)$	$n_{c}$ , the number of observations used in the calculations.

7: $ifail$ – IntegerInput/Output

On entry: ifail must be set to

0

- 1 or 1

. If you are unfamiliar with this argument you should refer to Section 3.4 in How to Use the NAG Library and its Documentation for details.

For environments where it might be inappropriate to halt program execution when an error is detected, the value

- 1 or 1

is recommended. If the output of error messages is undesirable, then the value

1

is recommended. Otherwise, if you are not familiar with this argument, the recommended value is

0

. When the value $- 1 or 1$ is used it is essential to test the value of ifail on exit.

On exit:

ifail = 0

unless the routine detects an error or a warning has been flagged (see Section 6).

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Error Indicators and Warnings

If on entry

ifail = 0

- 1

, explanatory error messages are output on the current error message unit (as defined by x04aaf).

Errors or warnings detected by the routine:

$ifail = 1$: On entry, $n = 〈value〉$ .
Constraint: $n \geq 2$ .

$ifail = 2$: After observations with missing values were omitted, fewer than two cases remained.

$ifail = 3$: After observations with missing values were omitted, all remaining values of at least one of x and y were identical.

$ifail = - 99$: An unexpected error has been triggered by this routine. Please contact NAG.
See Section 3.9 in How to Use the NAG Library and its Documentation for further information.

$ifail = - 399$: Your licence key may have expired or may not have been installed correctly.
See Section 3.8 in How to Use the NAG Library and its Documentation for further information.

$ifail = - 999$: Dynamic memory allocation failed.
See Section 3.7 in How to Use the NAG Library and its Documentation for further information.

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Accuracy

g02cdf does not use additional precision arithmetic for the accumulation of scalar products, so there may be a loss of significant figures for large

n

You are warned of the need to exercise extreme care in your selection of missing values. g02cdf treats all values in the inclusive range

(1 \pm {0.1}^{(x02bef - 2)}) \times {x m}_{j}

, where

{xm}_{j}

is the missing value for variable

j

specified in xmiss.

You must therefore ensure that the missing value chosen for each variable is sufficiently different from all valid values for that variable so that none of the valid values fall within the range indicated above.

If, in calculating

F

t (b)

(see Section 3), the numbers involved are such that the result would be outside the range of numbers which can be stored by the machine, then the answer is set to the largest quantity which can be stored as a real variable, by means of a call to x02alf.

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Parallelism and Performance

g02cdf is not threaded in any implementation.

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Further Comments

The time taken by g02cdf depends on

n

and the number of missing observations.

The routine uses a two-pass algorithm.

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Example

This example reads in eight observations on each of two variables, and then performs a simple linear regression with no constant, with the first variable as the independent variable, and the second variable as the dependent variable, omitting cases involving missing values (

0.0

for the first variable,

99.0

for the second). Finally the results are printed.

NAG Library Routine Document

g02cdf (linregs_noconst_miss)

▸▿ 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