The function may be called by the names: g05pvc or nag_rand_kfold_xyw.
3Description
Let denote a matrix of observations on variables and and each denote a vector of length . For example, might represent a matrix of independent variables, the dependent variable and the associated weights in a weighted regression.
g05pvc generates a series of training datasets, denoted by the matrix, vector, vector triplet of observations, and validation datasets, denoted with observations. These training and validation datasets are generated as follows.
Each of the original observations is randomly assigned to one of equally sized groups or folds. For the th sample the validation dataset consists of those observations in group and the training dataset consists of all those observations not in group . Therefore, at most samples can be generated.
If is not divisible by then the observations are assigned to groups as evenly as possible, therefore, any group will be at most one observation larger or smaller than any other group.
When using the resulting datasets are suitable for leave-one-out cross-validation, or the training dataset on its own for jack-knifing. When using the resulting datasets are suitable for -fold cross-validation. Datasets suitable for reversed cross-validation can be obtained by switching the training and validation datasets, i.e., use the th group as the training dataset and the rest of the data as the validation dataset.
One of the initialization functions g05kfc (for a repeatable sequence if computed sequentially) or g05kgc (for a non-repeatable sequence) must be called prior to the first call to g05pvc.
4References
None.
5Arguments
1: – IntegerInput
On entry: , the number of folds.
Constraint:
.
2: – IntegerInput
On entry: the number of the fold to return as the validation dataset.
On the first call to g05pvc should be set to and then incremented by one at each subsequent call until all sets of training and validation datasets have been produced. See Section 9 for more details on how a different calling sequence can be used.
Constraint:
.
3: – IntegerInput
On entry: , the number of observations.
Constraint:
.
4: – IntegerInput
On entry: , the number of variables.
Constraint:
.
5: – Nag_DataByObsOrVarInput
On entry: determines how variables are stored in x.
Constraint:
or .
6: – doubleInput/Output
Note: the dimension, dim, of the array x
must be at least
when
;
when
.
The way the data is stored in x is defined by sordx.
If , contains the th observation for the th variable, for and .
If , contains the th observation for the th variable, for and .
On entry: if , x must hold , the values of for the original dataset, otherwise, x must not be changed since the last call to g05pvc.
On exit: values of for the training and validation datasets, with held in observations to and in observations to .
7: – IntegerInput
On entry: the stride separating row elements in the two-dimensional data stored in the array x.
Constraints:
if , ;
otherwise .
8: – doubleInput/Output
Note: the dimension, dim, of the array y
must be at least
, when ;
otherwise is not referenced and may be NULL.
If the original dataset does not include then y must be set to NULL.
On entry: if , y must not be changed since the last call to g05pvc.
On exit: values of for the training and validation datasets, with held in elements to and in elements to .
9: – doubleInput/Output
Note: the dimension, dim, of the array w
must be at least
, when ;
otherwise is not referenced and may be NULL.
If the original dataset does not include then w must be set to NULL.
On entry: if , w must not be changed since the last call to g05pvc.
On exit: values of for the training and validation datasets, with held in elements to and in elements to .
10: – Integer *Output
On exit: , the number of observations in the training dataset.
On entry: contains information on the selected base generator and its current state.
On exit: contains updated information on the state of the generator.
12: – NagError *Input/Output
The NAG error argument (see Section 7 in the Introduction to the NAG Library CL Interface).
6Error Indicators and Warnings
NE_ALLOC_FAIL
Dynamic memory allocation failed.
See Section 3.1.2 in the Introduction to the NAG Library CL Interface for further information.
NE_ARRAY_SIZE
On entry, and . Constraint: if , .
On entry, and . Constraint: if , .
NE_BAD_PARAM
On entry, argument had an illegal value.
NE_INT
On entry, . Constraint: .
On entry, . Constraint: .
NE_INT_2
On entry, and . Constraint: .
On entry, and . Constraint: .
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 7.5 in the Introduction to the NAG Library CL Interface for further information.
NE_INVALID_STATE
On entry, state vector has been corrupted or not initialized.
NE_NO_LICENCE
Your licence key may have expired or may not have been installed correctly.
See Section 8 in the Introduction to the NAG Library CL Interface for further information.
NW_POTENTIAL_PROBLEM
More than of the data did not move when the data was shuffled. of the observations stayed put.
7Accuracy
Not applicable.
8Parallelism and Performance
Background information to multithreading can be found in the Multithreading documentation.
g05pvc is threaded by NAG for parallel execution in multithreaded implementations of the NAG Library.
g05pvc 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.
9Further Comments
g05pvc will be computationality more efficient if each observation in x is contiguous, that is .
Because of the way g05pvc stores the data you should usually generate the training and validation datasets in order, i.e., set on the first call and increment it by one at each subsequent call. However, there are times when a different calling sequence would be beneficial, for example, when performing different cross-validation analyses on different threads. This is possible, as long as the following is borne in mind:
g05pvc must be called with first.
Other than the first set, you can obtain the training and validation dataset in any order, but for a given x you can only obtain each once.
For example, if you have three threads, you would call g05pvc once with . You would then copy the x returned onto each thread and generate the remaing sets of data by splitting them between the threads. For example, the first thread runs with , the second with and the third with .
10Example
This example uses g05pvc to facilitate -fold cross-validation.
A set of simulated data is split into training and validation datasets. g02gbc is used to fit a logistic regression model to each training dataset and then g02gpc is used to predict the response for the observations in the validation dataset.
The counts of true and false positives and negatives along with the sensitivity and specificity is then reported.