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Compute external metrics for fuzzy clusterings

Source: R/getFuzzyPartitionMetrics.R
getFuzzyPartitionMetrics.Rd

Computes a selection of external fuzzy clustering evaluation metrics.

Usage

getFuzzyPartitionMetrics(
  hardTrue = NULL,
  fuzzyTrue = NULL,
  hardPred = NULL,
  fuzzyPred = NULL,
  metrics = c("fuzzyWH", "fuzzyAWH", "fuzzyWC", "fuzzyAWC"),
  level = "class",
  nperms = NULL,
  verbose = TRUE,
  returnElementPairAccuracy = FALSE,
  BPPARAM = BiocParallel::SerialParam(),
  useNegatives = TRUE,
  usePairs = NULL,
  ...
)

Arguments

hardTrue

An atomic vector coercible to a factor or integer vector containing the true hard labels.

fuzzyTrue

A object coercible to a numeric matrix with membership probability of elements (rows) in clusters (columns).

hardPred

An atomic vector coercible to a factor or integer vector containing the predicted hard labels.

fuzzyPred

A object coercible to a numeric matrix with membership probability of elements (rows) in clusters (columns).

metrics

The metrics to compute. See details.

level

The level to calculate the metrics. Options include "element", "class" and "dataset".

nperms

The number of permutations (for correction for chance). If NULL (default), a first set of 10 permutations will be run to estimate whether the variation across permutations is above 0.0025, in which case more (max 1000) permutations will be run.

verbose

Logical; whether to print info and warnings, including the standard error of the mean across permutations (giving an idea of the precision of the adjusted metrics).

BPPARAM

BiocParallel params for multithreading (default none)

useNegatives

Logical; whether to include negative pairs in the concordance score (tends to result in a larger overall concordance and lower dynamic range of the score). Default TRUE.

usePairs

Logical; whether to compute over pairs instead of elements Recommended and TRUE by default.

lowMemory

Logical, whether to use a low memory mode. This is only useful whenhardTrue and fuzzyPred is used. If TRUE, the function will compute the metrics in a low memory mode, which is slower but uses less memory. If FALSE, the function will compute the metrics in a high memory mode, which is faster but uses more memory. By default it is set automatically based on the size of the input data. See fuzzyHardMetrics.

...

Optional arguments for fuzzyPartitionMetrics: tnorm. Only useful when fuzzyTrue and fuzzyPred is used.

Value

A dataframe of metric results.

Details

The allowed values for metrics depend on the value of level:

  • If level = "element", the allowed metrics are: "fuzzySPC".

  • If level = "class", the allowed metrics are: "fuzzyWH", "fuzzyAWH", "fuzzyWC", "fuzzyAWC".

  • If level = "dataset", the allowed metrics are: "fuzzyRI", "fuzzyARI", "fuzzyWH", "fuzzyAWH", "fuzzyWC", "fuzzyAWC".

Examples

# generate fuzzy partitions:
m1 <- matrix(c(0.95, 0.025, 0.025, 
               0.98, 0.01, 0.01, 
               0.96, 0.02, 0.02, 
               0.95, 0.04, 0.01, 
               0.95, 0.01, 0.04, 
               0.99, 0.005, 0.005, 
               0.025, 0.95, 0.025, 
               0.97, 0.02, 0.01, 
               0.025, 0.025, 0.95), 
               ncol = 3, byrow=TRUE)
m2 <- matrix(c(0.95, 0.025, 0.025,  
               0.98, 0.01, 0.01, 
               0.96, 0.02, 0.02, 
               0.025, 0.95, 0.025, 
               0.02, 0.96, 0.02, 
               0.01, 0.98, 0.01, 
               0.05, 0.05, 0.95, 
               0.02, 0.02, 0.96, 
               0.01, 0.01, 0.98), 
               ncol = 3, byrow=TRUE)
colnames(m1) <- colnames(m2) <- LETTERS[seq_len(3)]
getFuzzyPartitionMetrics(fuzzyTrue=m1,fuzzyPred=m2, level="class")
#> Comparing between a fuzzy truth and a fuzzy prediction...
#> Running 100 extra permutations.
#> Standard error of the mean NDC across permutations:0.00215
#>     fuzzyWC    fuzzyAWC class   fuzzyWH   fuzzyAWH cluster
#> 1 0.3445840  0.05010597     1        NA         NA      NA
#> 2 0.7242508 -0.02250224     2        NA         NA      NA
#> 3 0.7520319  0.06388584     3        NA         NA      NA
#> 4        NA          NA    NA 0.9359492  0.8286227       1
#> 5        NA          NA    NA 0.9214151  0.8274947       2
#> 6        NA          NA    NA 0.1588990 -1.1160180       3

# generate a fuzzy truth:
fuzzyTrue <- matrix(c(
  0.95, 0.025, 0.025, 
  0.98, 0.01, 0.01, 
  0.96, 0.02, 0.02, 
  0.95, 0.04, 0.01, 
  0.95, 0.01, 0.04, 
  0.99, 0.005, 0.005, 
  0.025, 0.95, 0.025, 
  0.97, 0.02, 0.01, 
  0.025, 0.025, 0.95), 
  ncol = 3, byrow=TRUE)
# a hard truth:
hardTrue <- apply(fuzzyTrue,1,FUN=which.max)
# some predicted labels:
hardPred <- c(1,1,1,1,1,1,2,2,2)
getFuzzyPartitionMetrics(hardPred=hardPred, hardTrue=hardTrue, 
fuzzyTrue=fuzzyTrue, nperms=3, level="class")
#> Comparing between a fuzzy truth and a hard prediction...
#> Standard error of the mean NDC across permutations:0.0947
#> You might want to increase the number of permutations to increase the robustness of the adjusted metrics.
#>     fuzzyWC  fuzzyAWC class    fuzzyWH   fuzzyAWH cluster
#> 1 0.7195238 0.3542847     1         NA         NA      NA
#> 2 1.0000000       NaN     2         NA         NA      NA
#> 3 1.0000000       NaN     3         NA         NA      NA
#> 4        NA        NA    NA 1.00000000  1.0000000       1
#> 5        NA        NA    NA 0.06166667 -0.8006397       2
getFuzzyPartitionMetrics(hardTrue=hardPred, hardPred=hardTrue, 
fuzzyPred=fuzzyTrue, nperms=3, level="class")
#> Comparing between a hard truth and a fuzzy prediction...
#> Standard error of the mean NDC across permutations:0.106
#> You might want to increase the number of permutations to increase the robustness of the adjusted metrics.
#>      fuzzyWC  fuzzyAWC class   fuzzyWH  fuzzyAWH cluster
#> 1 1.00000000  1.000000     1        NA        NA      NA
#> 2 0.06166667 -1.978836     2        NA        NA      NA
#> 3         NA        NA    NA 0.7195238 0.3967224       1
#> 4         NA        NA    NA 1.0000000       NaN       2
#> 5         NA        NA    NA 1.0000000       NaN       3