ParamNMoE-class {meteorits}

A Reference Class which contains parameters of a NMoE model.

Description

ParamNMoE contains all the parameters of a NMoE model.

Fields

X

Numeric vector of length n representing the covariates/inputs x_{1},\dots,x_{n}.

Y

Numeric vector of length n representing the observed response/output y_{1},\dots,y_{n}.

n

Numeric. Length of the response/output vector Y.

K

The number of experts.

p

The order of the polynomial regression for the experts.

q

The order of the logistic regression for the gating network.

alpha

Parameters of the gating network. \boldsymbol{\alpha} = (\boldsymbol{\alpha}_{1},\dots,\boldsymbol{\alpha}_{K-1}) is a matrix of dimension (q + 1, K - 1), with q the order of the logistic regression for the gating network. q is fixed to 1 by default.

beta

Polynomial regressions coefficients for each expert. \boldsymbol{\beta} = (\boldsymbol{\beta}_{1},\dots,\boldsymbol{\beta}_{K}) is a matrix of dimension (p + 1, K), with p the order of the polynomial regression. p is fixed to 3 by default.

sigma2

The variances for the K mixture components (matrix of size (1, K)).

df

The degree of freedom of the NMoE model representing the complexity of the model.

Methods

initParam(segmental = FALSE)

Method to initialize parameters alpha, beta and sigma2.

If segmental = TRUE then alpha, beta and sigma2 are initialized by clustering the response Y uniformly into K contiguous segments. Otherwise, alpha, beta and sigma2 are initialized by clustering randomly the response Y into K segments.