--- title: "Directional Statistics in PCVR" author: "Josh Sumner, DDPSC Data Science Core Facility" subtitle: "pcvr v0.1.0" output: html_vignette: toc: true number_sections: false code_folding: show date: "2024-04-22" vignette: > %\VignetteIndexEntry{Directional Statistics in PCVR} %\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown} %\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8} --- ```{r setup, include=FALSE} knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE) ``` ```{css} .static-code { background-color: white; border: 1px solid lightgray; } .simulated { background-color: #EEF8FB; border: 1px solid #287C94; } ``` ```{r libraries, message=FALSE} library(pcvr) library(brms) # for rvon_mises library(ggplot2) library(patchwork) # for easy ggplot manipulation/combination ``` # What are directional statistics? Directional (or circular/spherical) statistics is a subset of statistics which focuses on directions and rotations. The reason directional statistics are separated from general statistics is that normally we think about numbers being on a line such that the mean of 4 and 356 would be 180, but if they are degrees in a circle then the mean would be at 0 (360) degrees. Most distributions that we talk about in statistics are defined on a line. The Beta distribution is defined on the interval [0,1], the normal can exist on a line in [-Inf, Inf], gamma on [0, Inf], etc. Directional statistics allows us to wrap those distributions around a circle but that can sometimes add difficulty to interpretation or extra error prone steps. Currently, pcvr does not support "wrapping" distributions in this way and instead uses to Von-Mises distribution to handle circular data. The Von-Mises distribution is a mathematically tractable circular distribution that can range from the circular uniform to roughly the circular normal depending on the precision parameter $\kappa$, with the uniform corresponding to $\kappa = 0$. # Why are they in `pcvr`? This is relevant to pcvr mainly for the color use case. `PlantCV` returns some single and multi value traits that are circular, hue_circular_mean/median and hue_frequencies. Luckily for simplified plant phenotyping, the Hue circle has red at 0/360 degrees (0/$2\pi$ in radians) and much of the time we will not have to worry about the circular nature of the data since values are confined to the more green part of the hue circle. Still, for cases where color does wrap around the circle it may be important to your research to take that into account. Those special cases are where the Von-Mises distribution can help you. # `conjugate` The simplest way to use the Von-Mises distribution in `pcvr` is through the `conjugate` function, where "vonmises" and "vonmises2" are valid methods. As with other conjugate methods these are implemented for single or multi value traits, but unlike other methods these are only necessarily supported in comparing to other samples from the same distribution. If more distributions become tenable to add as circular or wrapped functions then this may be revisted. ## "vonmises" method The "vonmises" method uses the fact that the conjugate prior for the direction parameter ($\mu$) is itself a Von-Mises distribution. Utilizing this conjugacy requires that we assume a known $\kappa$ for the complete distribution so that updating the $\mu$ parameter is straightforward. Conceptually it may be helpful to consider this similarly to the "T" method for comparing the means of guassians. Priors for this method should specify a list containing "mu", "kappa", "boundary", "known_kappa", and "n" elements. In that prior "mu" is the direction of the circular distribution, "kappa" is the precision of the mean, "boundary" is a vector including the two values that are the where the circular data "wraps" around the circle, "known_kappa" is the fixed value of precision for the total distribution, and "n" is the number of prior observations. If the prior is not specified then the default is `list(mu = 0, kappa = 1, boundary = c(-pi, pi), known_kappa = 1, n = 1)`. As per other methods for the conjugate function, the "posterior" part of the output is of the same form as the prior. ### Example First we'll simulate some multi value data ```{r mv gaussian sim} mv_gauss <- mvSim( dists = list( rnorm = list(mean = 50, sd = 10), rnorm = list(mean = 60, sd = 12) ), n_samples = c(30, 40) ) ``` Next we'll run `conjugate` specifying that our data is on a circle defined over [0, 180] with an expected direction around 45 (90 degrees on the full [0,360] or $\pi/2$ radians) and low precision. ```{r run conjugate} vm_ex1 <- conjugate( s1 = mv_gauss[1:30, -1], s2 = mv_gauss[31:70, -1], method = "vonmises", priors = list(mu = 45, kappa = 1, boundary = c(0, 180), known_kappa = 1, n = 1), plot = TRUE, rope_range = c(-5, 5), rope_ci = 0.89, cred.int.level = 0.89, hypothesis = "equal" ) ``` The summary shows normal `conjugate` output, here showing a posterior probability of ~91% that our samples have equal means (remember the difference in our simulated data is now on a circle). ```{r show summary} vm_ex1$summary ``` Displaying plots of these data can be slower than for other conjugate methods due to the density of the support. To explain, the Von-Mises distribution is defined in on the unit circle [$-\pi$, $\pi$] so in order to have support that works to project that data into whatever space the boundary in the prior specifies the support has to be very dense. Note also that our rope_range is specified in the boundary units space, which is not necessarily the unit circle. ```{r heavy conj plot, eval = FALSE} vm_ex1$plot # not printed due to being a very dense ggplot ``` We get very similar results using roughly analogous single value traits. ```{r run conjugate 2} vm_ex1_1 <- conjugate( s1 = rnorm(30, 50, 10), s2 = rnorm(40, 60, 12), method = "vonmises", priors = list(mu = 0, kappa = 1, known_kappa = 1, boundary = c(0, 180), n = 1), plot = FALSE, rope_range = c(-0.1, 0.1), rope_ci = 0.89, cred.int.level = 0.89, hypothesis = "equal" ) do.call(rbind, vm_ex1_1$posterior) ``` Single value traits work in the same way. Note that if we omit parts of the prior then they will be filled in with the default prior values. ```{r run conjugate 3} set.seed(42) vm_ex2 <- conjugate( s1 = brms::rvon_mises(100, -3.1, 2), s2 = brms::rvon_mises(100, 3.1, 2), method = "vonmises", priors = list(mu = 0, kappa = 1, known_kappa = 2), plot = TRUE, rope_range = c(-0.1, 0.1), rope_ci = 0.89, cred.int.level = 0.89, hypothesis = "equal" ) ``` We check our summary and see around 75% chance that these are equal ```{r show conjugate 3 out data} vm_ex2$summary do.call(rbind, vm_ex2$posterior) ``` Here our plot is much faster to make since the support is a roughly a thirtieth the size of the previous example. ```{r conjugate 3 plot, eval = FALSE} vm_ex2$plot # not printed due to being a very dense ggplot ``` Sometimes it may be helpful to use polar coordinates to consider this data, although limitations in plotting area style geometries in the polar coordinates can be frustrating. ```{r polar coord conj1, eval = FALSE} p <- vm_ex2$plot p[[1]] <- p[[1]] + ggplot2::coord_polar() + ggplot2::scale_y_continuous(limits = c(-pi, pi)) ``` ```{r polar coord conj2, eval=FALSE, echo=FALSE} coord_polar_linear <- function(theta = "x", start = 0, direction = 1, clip = "on") { theta <- match.arg(theta, c("x", "y")) r <- if (theta == "x") { "y" } else { "x" } ggproto(NULL, CoordPolar, theta = theta, r = r, start = start, direction = sign(direction), clip = clip, is_linear = function() { TRUE } ) } p <- vm_ex2$plot p[[1]] <- p[[1]] + coord_polar_linear() + ggplot2::scale_y_continuous(limits = c(-pi, pi)) p ``` ## "vonmises2" method The "vonmises2" method updates $\mu$ and $\kappa$ of the complete Von-Mises distribution. This is done by first taking a weighted average of the prior $\kappa$ and the MLE of $\kappa$ based on the sample data then updating $\mu$ as above. Priors for this method should specify "mu", "kappa", "boundary", and "n". Where "mu" is still mean direction, "kappa" is the precision, and boundary/n are as above. ### Example Using the same test data as above we can run the "vonmises2" method. ```{r run conjugate 4} vm2_ex1 <- conjugate( s1 = mv_gauss[1:30, -1], s2 = mv_gauss[31:70, -1], method = "vonmises2", priors = list(mu = 45, kappa = 1, boundary = c(0, 180), n = 1), plot = TRUE, rope_range = c(-5, 5), rope_ci = 0.89, cred.int.level = 0.89, hypothesis = "equal" ) ``` ```{r show conj 4 posterior} do.call(rbind, vm2_ex1$posterior) ``` ```{r run conjugate 5} set.seed(42) vm2_ex2 <- conjugate( s1 = brms::rvon_mises(100, -3.1, 2), s2 = brms::rvon_mises(100, 3.1, 2), method = "vonmises2", priors = list(mu = 0, kappa = 1), plot = TRUE, rope_range = c(-0.75, 0.75), rope_ci = 0.89, cred.int.level = 0.89, hypothesis = "equal" ) ``` ```{r plot from conjugate 5} #| fig.alt: > #| Plot of the posterior distribution using the vonmises2 method vm2_ex2$plot # much lighter to print this since it is in radians ``` ```{r posterior from conjugate 5} do.call(rbind, vm2_ex2$posterior) ``` # `growthSS and brms` The "von_mises" family is an option in `brms::brm()` and can be used via `growthSS` by specifying it in the model using the form `model = "von_mises: linear"`. While this will let you specify a Von-Mises model it does not necessarily mean the model will be as ready to go as the default student_t models or gaussian or count models. The Von-Mises family can be more difficult to fit, particularly with non-linear models. Von-Mises mixture models (which may be useful for modeling color changes due to disease or abiotic stress that affects only a part of the plant at a time) are very difficult to fit but can be at least hypothetically very useful. ## Example of specifying a circular model in `growthSS` Here we set up a model with `growthSS` only for example purposes ```{r pcvr model setup} nReps <- 25 time <- 1:20 muTrend1 <- -2 + (0.25 * time) muTrend2 <- -1 + (0.2 * time) kappaTrend1 <- (0.5 * time) kappaTrend2 <- (0.3 * time) set.seed(123) vm2 <- do.call(rbind, lapply(1:nReps, function(rep) { do.call(rbind, lapply(time, function(ti) { v1 <- brms::rvon_mises(1, muTrend1[ti], kappaTrend1[ti]) v2 <- brms::rvon_mises(1, muTrend2[ti], kappaTrend2[ti]) data.frame(y = c(v1, v2), x = ti, group = c("a", "b"), rep = rep) })) })) ss <- growthSS( model = "von_mises: int_linear", form = y ~ x | rep / group, sigma = "int", df = vm2, start = NULL, type = "brms" ) ss$prior # default priors ss$formula # formula specifies kappa based on sigma argument ``` ## Example using `brms` directly ### Single Timepoint Model ```{r brms example 1, eval = FALSE} set.seed(123) n <- 1000 vm1 <- data.frame( x = c(brms::rvon_mises(n, 1.5, 3), brms::rvon_mises(n, 3, 2)), y = rep(c("a", "b"), each = n) ) basePlot <- ggplot(vm1, aes(x = x, fill = y)) + geom_histogram(binwidth = 0.1, alpha = 0.75, position = "identity") + labs(fill = "Group") + guides(fill = guide_legend(override.aes = list(alpha = 1))) + scale_fill_viridis_d() + theme_minimal() + theme(legend.position = "bottom") basePlot + coord_polar() + scale_x_continuous(breaks = c(-2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3.1415), labels = c(-2, -1, 0, 1, 2, "Pi")) basePlot + scale_x_continuous(breaks = c(-round(pi, 2), -1.5, 0, 1.5, round(pi, 2))) prior1 <- set_prior("student_t(3,0,2.5)", coef = "ya") + set_prior("student_t(3,0,2.5)", coef = "yb") + set_prior("normal(5.0, 0.8)", coef = "ya", dpar = "kappa") + set_prior("normal(5.0, 0.8)", coef = "yb", dpar = "kappa") fit1 <- brm(bf(x ~ 0 + y, kappa ~ 0 + y), family = von_mises, prior = prior1, data = vm1, iter = 1000, cores = 2, chains = 2, backend = "cmdstanr", silent = 0, init = 0, control = list(adapt_delta = 0.999, max_treedepth = 20) ) fit1 x <- brmsfamily("von_mises") pars <- colMeans(as.data.frame(fit)) mus <- pars[grepl("b_y", names(pars))] x$linkinv(mus) # inverse half tangent function # should be around 1.5, 3 kappas <- pars[grepl("kappa", names(pars))] exp(kappas) # kappa is log linked # should be around 3, 2 pred_draws <- as.data.frame(predict(fit1, newdata = data.frame(y = c("a", "b")), summary = FALSE)) preds <- data.frame( draw = c(pred_draws[, 1], pred_draws[, 2]), y = rep(c("a", "b"), each = nrow(pred_draws)) ) predPlot <- ggplot(preds, aes(x = draw, fill = y)) + geom_histogram(binwidth = 0.1, alpha = 0.75, position = "identity") + labs(fill = "Group", y = "Predicted Draws") + guides(fill = guide_legend(override.aes = list(alpha = 1))) + scale_fill_viridis_d() + theme_minimal() + theme(legend.position = "bottom") predPlot + scale_x_continuous(breaks = c(-round(pi, 2), -1.5, 0, 1.5, round(pi, 2))) predPlot + coord_polar() + scale_x_continuous(breaks = c(-2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3.1415), labels = c(-2, -1, 0, 1, 2, "Pi")) ``` ### Longitudinal Model ```{r brms example 2, eval = FALSE} nReps <- 25 time <- 1:20 muTrend1 <- -2 + (0.25 * time) muTrend2 <- -1 + (0.2 * time) kappaTrend1 <- (0.5 * time) kappaTrend2 <- (0.3 * time) set.seed(123) vm2 <- do.call(rbind, lapply(1:nReps, function(rep) { do.call(rbind, lapply(time, function(ti) { v1 <- rvon_mises(1, muTrend1[ti], kappaTrend1[ti]) v2 <- rvon_mises(1, muTrend2[ti], kappaTrend2[ti]) data.frame(y = c(v1, v2), x = ti, group = c("a", "b"), rep = rep) })) })) ggplot(vm2, aes(x = x, y = y, color = group, group = interaction(group, rep))) + geom_line() + labs(y = "Y (Von Mises)") + theme_minimal() ggplot(vm2, aes(y = x, x = y, color = group, group = interaction(group, rep), alpha = x)) + geom_line() + labs(y = "Time", x = "Von Mises") + theme_minimal() + guides(alpha = "none") + coord_polar() + scale_x_continuous( breaks = c(-2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3.1415), limits = c(-pi, pi), labels = c(-2, -1, 0, 1, 2, "Pi") ) prior2 <- set_prior("normal(5,0.8)", nlpar = "K") + set_prior("student_t(3, 0, 2.5)", nlpar = "I") + set_prior("student_t(3, 0, 2.5)", nlpar = "M") fit2 <- brm( bf(y ~ I + M * x, nlf(kappa ~ K * x), I + M ~ 0 + group, K ~ 0 + group, autocor = ~ arma(x | rep:group, 1, 1), nl = TRUE ), family = von_mises, prior = prior2, data = vm2, iter = 2000, cores = 4, chains = 4, backend = "cmdstanr", silent = 0, init = 0, control = list(adapt_delta = 0.999, max_treedepth = 20) ) fit2 pars <- colMeans(as.data.frame(fit2)) pars[grepl("^b_", names(pars))] outline <- data.frame( group = rep(c("a", "b"), each = 20), x = rep(1:20, 2) ) probs <- seq(0.01, 0.99, 0.02) preds <- cbind(outline, predict(fit2, newdata = outline, probs = probs)) pal <- viridis::plasma(n = length(probs)) p2 <- ggplot(preds, aes(y = x)) + facet_wrap(~group) + lapply(seq(1, 49, 2), function(lower) { geom_ribbon(aes(xmin = .data[[paste0("Q", lower)]], xmax = .data[[paste0("Q", 100 - lower)]]), fill = pal[lower] ) }) + theme_minimal() + coord_polar() + scale_x_continuous( breaks = c(-2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3.1415), limits = c(-pi, pi), labels = c(-2, -1, 0, 1, 2, "Pi") ) ``` These models can be difficult to fit but they may be useful for your situation in which case the stan forums and `pcvr` github issues are reasonable places to get help. ![Posterior Predictive intervals from a non-linear VM Model](vm_longitudinal_postPred_example.png)