The routine may be called by the names g03daf or nagf_mv_discrim.
3Description
Let a sample of observations on variables come from groups with observations in the th group and . If the data is assumed to follow a multivariate Normal distribution with the variance-covariance matrix of the th group , then to test for equality of the variance-covariance matrices between groups, that is, , the following likelihood-ratio test statistic, , can be used;
where
and are the within-group variance-covariance matrices and is the pooled variance-covariance matrix given by
For large , is approximately distributed as a variable with degrees of freedom, see Morrison (1967) for further comments. If weights are used, then and are the weighted pooled and within-group variance-covariance matrices and is the effective number of observations, that is, the sum of the weights.
Instead of calculating the within-group variance-covariance matrices and then computing their determinants in order to calculate the test statistic, g03daf uses a decomposition. The group means are subtracted from the data and then for each group, a decomposition is computed to give an upper triangular matrix . This matrix can be scaled to give a matrix such that . The pooled matrix is then computed from the matrices. The values of and the can then be calculated from the diagonal elements of and the .
This approach means that the Mahalanobis squared distances for a vector observation can be computed as , where , being the vector of means of the th group. These distances can be calculated by g03dbf. The distances are used in discriminant analysis and g03dcf uses the results of g03daf to perform several different types of discriminant analysis. The differences between the discriminant methods are, in part, due to whether or not the within-group variance-covariance matrices are equal.
4References
Aitchison J and Dunsmore I R (1975) Statistical Prediction Analysis Cambridge
Kendall M G and Stuart A (1976) The Advanced Theory of Statistics (Volume 3) (3rd Edition) Griffin
Krzanowski W J (1990) Principles of Multivariate Analysis Oxford University Press
Morrison D F (1967) Multivariate Statistical Methods McGraw–Hill
5Arguments
1: – Character(1)Input
On entry: indicates if weights are to be used.
No weights are used.
Weights are to be used and must be supplied in wt.
Constraint:
or .
2: – IntegerInput
On entry: , the number of observations.
Constraint:
.
3: – IntegerInput
On entry: the number of variables in the data array x.
Constraint:
.
4: – Real (Kind=nag_wp) arrayInput
On entry: must contain the th observation for the th variable, for and .
5: – IntegerInput
On entry: the first dimension of the array x as declared in the (sub)program from which g03daf is called.
Constraint:
.
6: – Integer arrayInput
On entry: indicates whether or not the th variable in x is to be included in the variance-covariance matrices.
If
the th variable is included, for ; otherwise it is not referenced.
On entry: , the number of variables in the variance-covariance matrices.
Constraint:
.
8: – Integer arrayInput
On entry: indicates to which group the th observation belongs, for .
Constraint:
, for
The values of ing must be such that each group has at least nvar members.
9: – IntegerInput
On entry: the number of groups, .
Constraint:
.
10: – Real (Kind=nag_wp) arrayInput
Note: the dimension of the array wt
must be at least
if , and at least otherwise.
On entry: if the first elements of wt must contain the weights to be used in the analysis and the effective number of observations for a group is the sum of the weights of the observations in that group. If the th observation is excluded from the calculations.
If , wt is not referenced and the effective number of observations for a group is the number of observations in that group.
Constraint:
if , , for .
11: – Integer arrayOutput
On exit: contains the number of observations in the th group, for .
12: – Real (Kind=nag_wp) arrayOutput
On exit: the
th row of gmn contains the means of the selected variables for the th group, for .
13: – IntegerInput
On entry: the first dimension of the array gmn as declared in the (sub)program from which g03daf is called.
Constraint:
.
14: – Real (Kind=nag_wp) arrayOutput
On exit: the logarithm of the determinants of the within-group variance-covariance matrices.
15: – Real (Kind=nag_wp) arrayOutput
On exit: the first elements of gc contain and the remaining blocks of elements contain the matrices. All are stored in packed form by columns.
16: – Real (Kind=nag_wp)Output
On exit: the likelihood-ratio test statistic, .
17: – Real (Kind=nag_wp)Output
On exit: the degrees of freedom for the distribution of .
18: – Real (Kind=nag_wp)Output
On exit: the significance level for .
19: – Real (Kind=nag_wp) arrayWorkspace
20: – Integer arrayWorkspace
21: – IntegerInput/Output
On entry: ifail must be set to , or to set behaviour on detection of an error; these values have no effect when no error is detected.
A value of causes the printing of an error message and program execution will be halted; otherwise program execution continues. A value of means that an error message is printed while a value of means that it is not.
If halting is not appropriate, the value or is recommended. If message printing is undesirable, then the value is recommended. Otherwise, the value is recommended. When the value or is used it is essential to test the value of ifail on exit.
On exit: unless the routine detects an error or a warning has been flagged (see Section 6).
6Error Indicators and Warnings
If on entry or , explanatory error messages are output on the current error message unit (as defined by x04aaf).
Errors or warnings detected by the routine:
On entry, and .
Constraint: .
On entry, and .
Constraint: .
On entry, and .
Constraint: .
On entry, .
Constraint: .
On entry, .
Constraint: .
On entry, .
Constraint: .
On entry, .
Constraint: or .
On entry, and .
Constraint: .
On entry, , and .
Constraint: .
On entry, and values of
Constraint: exactly nvar elements of .
The effective number of observations for group is less than .
The number of observations for group is less than nvar.
is not of full rank.
is not of full rank for .
An unexpected error has been triggered by this routine. Please
contact NAG.
See Section 7 in the Introduction to the NAG Library FL Interface for further information.
Your licence key may have expired or may not have been installed correctly.
See Section 8 in the Introduction to the NAG Library FL Interface for further information.
Dynamic memory allocation failed.
See Section 9 in the Introduction to the NAG Library FL Interface for further information.
7Accuracy
The accuracy is dependent on the accuracy of the computation of the decomposition. See f08aef for further details.
8Parallelism and Performance
g03daf is threaded by NAG for parallel execution in multithreaded implementations of the NAG Library.
g03daf 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 routine. Please also consult the Users' Note for your implementation for any additional implementation-specific information.
9Further Comments
The time taken will be approximately proportional to .
10Example
The data, taken from Aitchison and Dunsmore (1975), is concerned with the diagnosis of three ‘types’ of Cushing's syndrome. The variables are the logarithms of the urinary excretion rates (mg/24hr) of two steroid metabolites. Observations for a total of patients are input and the statistics computed by g03daf. The printed results show that there is evidence that the within-group variance-covariance matrices are not equal.