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Introduction

The aim here is to illustrate in a very simple example why the hierarchical inference approach, e.g. as implemented in hierinf, may select too many variables.

Suppose we have three highly-correlated variables \(x_1,x_2,x_3\), and that \(x_2,x_3\) are most highly correlated. Then the hierchical clustering will put \(x_2,x_3\) together first, and then join with \(x_1\). As a consequence the hierarchical approach cannot select just \(x_1\) and \(x_2\) say, even if the data would support that selection (e.g. because \(x_1\) is the effect variable and \(x_2\) is sufficiently correlated with \(x_1\) to be difficult to distinguish from it, whereas \(x_3\) is not). The hierarchical approach can only choose to select \(x_1\) alone or all 3. On the other hand SuSiE can select any pair of variables that is appropriate.

Illustration

Here we provide a simple simulation that illustrates the idea. (Note that this is not deterministic.. so a different seed may produce a different result.)

library("hierinf")
library("mvtnorm")

First simulate some data with \((x_2,x_3)\) most highly correlated, and with \(x_1\) being most correlated with \(x_2\). Note that \(x_1\) is the effect variable.

set.seed(4)
n = 10000 # chosen large to reduce the variation  among simulations, although different seeds can give different answers
rho12 = 0.97
rho13 = 0.92
rho23 = 0.98
Sigma = cbind(c(1,rho12,rho13),c(rho12,1,rho23),c(rho13,rho23,1))

x = mvtnorm::rmvnorm(n, c(0,0,0),Sigma)
b = c(0.07,0,0) # this was chosen such that there is usually some  uncertainty in the variable selection
y = drop(x %*% b + rnorm(n))

Run susie:

s = susieR::susie(x,y)
susieR::susie_get_cs(s)
$cs
$cs[[1]]
[1] 1 2


$coverage
[1] 0.95
susieR::susie_get_pip(s)
[1] 0.871336030 0.122517502 0.006146468

Note that susie reports a CS with just variables \((x_1,x_2)\). Essentially this is because, although \(x_3\) is correlated with \(x_1\), it is sufficiently independent of \(x_1\) to not be confused with it (\(x_3\) has very small PIP).

This result is impossible for hierinf because it constrains itself by the hierarchical structure (which does not “really” exist here - it is imposed by the method.) Here hierinf reports a significant cluster containing all 3 variables:

colnames(x)<-1:3
h = hierinf::test_hierarchy(x,y,alpha=0.01,dendr=cluster_var(x))
h
  block p.value   significant.cluster
1 NA    1.493e-07 1, 2, 3            

sessionInfo()
R version 3.6.0 (2019-04-26)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Mojave 10.14.4

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.6/Resources/lib/libRblas.0.dylib
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.6/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] mvtnorm_1.0-11 hierinf_1.3.1 

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