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library(mashr)
Loading required package: ashr
library(knitr)
library(kableExtra)
source('../code/generateDataV.R')
source('../code/summary.R')
We illustrate the problem about estimating the correlation matrix in mashr.
In my simple simulation, the current approach underestimates the null correlation. We want to find better positive definite estimator. We could try to estimate the pairwise correlation, ie. mle of \(\sum_{l,k} \pi_{lk} N_{2}(0, V + w_{l}U_{k})\) for any pair of conditions.
Simple simulation in \(R^2\) to illustrate the problem: \[ \hat{\beta}|\beta \sim N_{2}(\hat{\beta}; \beta, \left(\begin{matrix} 1 & 0.5 \\ 0.5 & 1 \end{matrix}\right)) \]
\[ \beta \sim \frac{1}{4}\delta_{0} + \frac{1}{4}N_{2}(0, \left(\begin{matrix} 1 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 \end{matrix}\right)) + \frac{1}{4}N_{2}(0, \left(\begin{matrix} 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 1 \end{matrix}\right)) + \frac{1}{4}N_{2}(0, \left(\begin{matrix} 1 & 1 \\ 1 & 1 \end{matrix}\right)) \]
\(\Rightarrow\) \[ \hat{\beta} \sim \frac{1}{4}N_{2}(0, \left( \begin{matrix} 1 & 0.5 \\ 0.5 & 1 \end{matrix} \right)) + \frac{1}{4}N_{2}(0, \left( \begin{matrix} 2 & 0.5 \\ 0.5 & 1 \end{matrix} \right)) + \frac{1}{4}N_{2}(0, \left( \begin{matrix} 1 & 0.5 \\ 0.5 & 2 \end{matrix} \right)) + \frac{1}{4}N_{2}(0, \left( \begin{matrix} 2 & 1.5 \\ 1.5 & 2 \end{matrix} \right)) \]
n = 4000
set.seed(1)
n = 4000; p = 2
Sigma = matrix(c(1,0.5,0.5,1),p,p)
U0 = matrix(0,2,2)
U1 = U0; U1[1,1] = 1
U2 = U0; U2[2,2] = 1
U3 = matrix(1,2,2)
Utrue = list(U0=U0, U1=U1, U2=U2, U3=U3)
data = generate_data(n, p, Sigma, Utrue)
Let’s check the result of mash under different correlation matrix:
m.data = mash_set_data(data$Bhat, data$Shat)
U.c = cov_canonical(m.data)
m.I = mash(m.data, U.c, verbose= FALSE)
The correlation of samples with maximum |z| scores less than 2.
Vhat = estimate_null_correlation(m.data, apply_lower_bound = FALSE)
Vhat
[,1] [,2]
[1,] 1.0000000 0.3439205
[2,] 0.3439205 1.0000000
It underestimates the correlation.
# Use underestimate cor
m.data.V = mash_set_data(data$Bhat, data$Shat, V=Vhat)
m.V = mash(m.data.V, U.c, verbose = FALSE)
# If we overestimate cor
V.o = matrix(c(1,0.65,0.65,1),2,2)
m.data.Vo = mash_set_data(data$Bhat, data$Shat, V=V.o)
m.Vo = mash(m.data.Vo, U.c, verbose=FALSE)
We run ash for each condition, and estimate correlation matrix based on the non-significant genes. The estimated cor is closer to the truth.
m.1by1 = mash_1by1(m.data)
strong = get_significant_results(m.1by1)
V.mash = cor(data$Bhat[-strong,])
V.mash
[,1] [,2]
[1,] 1.0000000 0.4597745
[2,] 0.4597745 1.0000000
m.data.1by1 = mash_set_data(data$Bhat, data$Shat, V=V.mash)
m.V1by1 = mash(m.data.1by1, U.c, verbose = FALSE)
# With correct cor
m.data.correct = mash_set_data(data$Bhat, data$Shat, V=Sigma)
m.correct = mash(m.data.correct, U.c, verbose = FALSE)
The results are summarized in table:
null.ind = which(apply(data$B,1,sum) == 0)
V.trun = c(get_loglik(m.V), length(get_significant_results(m.V)), sum(get_significant_results(m.V) %in% null.ind))
V.I = c(get_loglik(m.I), length(get_significant_results(m.I)), sum(get_significant_results(m.I) %in% null.ind))
V.over = c(get_loglik(m.Vo), length(get_significant_results(m.Vo)), sum(get_significant_results(m.Vo) %in% null.ind))
V.1by1 = c(get_loglik(m.V1by1), length(get_significant_results(m.V1by1)), sum(get_significant_results(m.V1by1) %in% null.ind))
V.correct = c(get_loglik(m.correct), length(get_significant_results(m.correct)), sum(get_significant_results(m.correct) %in% null.ind))
temp = cbind(V.I, V.trun, V.1by1, V.correct, V.over)
colnames(temp) = c('Identity','truncate', 'm.1by1', 'true', 'overestimate')
row.names(temp) = c('log likelihood', '# significance', '# False positive')
temp %>% kable() %>% kable_styling()
| Identity | truncate | m.1by1 | true | overestimate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| log likelihood | -12390.14 | -12307.65 | -12304.13 | -12302.62 | -12301.81 |
| # significance | 166.00 | 30.00 | 25.00 | 25.00 | 70.00 |
| # False positive | 14.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
The ROC curve:
m.I.seq = ROC.table(data$B, m.I)
m.V.seq = ROC.table(data$B, m.V)
m.Vo.seq = ROC.table(data$B, m.Vo)
m.V1by1.seq = ROC.table(data$B, m.V1by1)
m.correct.seq = ROC.table(data$B, m.correct)

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Comparing accuracy
rrmse = rbind(RRMSE(data$B, data$Bhat, list(m.I = m.I, m.V = m.V, m.1by1 = m.V1by1, m.true = m.correct, m.over = m.Vo)))
colnames(rrmse) = c('Identity','V.trun','V.1by1','V.true','V.over')
row.names(rrmse) = 'RRMSE'
rrmse %>% kable() %>% kable_styling()
| Identity | V.trun | V.1by1 | V.true | V.over | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RRMSE | 0.6522463 | 0.5925754 | 0.5811472 | 0.5817699 | 0.6052702 |
barplot(rrmse, ylim=c(0,(1+max(rrmse))/2), las=2, cex.names = 0.7, main='RRMSE')

Suppose a simple extreme case \[ \left(\begin{matrix} \hat{x} \\ \hat{y} \end{matrix} \right)| \left(\begin{matrix} x \\ y \end{matrix} \right) \sim N_{2}(\left(\begin{matrix} \hat{x} \\ \hat{y} \end{matrix} \right); \left(\begin{matrix} x \\ y \end{matrix} \right), \left( \begin{matrix} 1 & \rho \\ \rho & 1 \end{matrix}\right)) \] \[ \left(\begin{matrix} x \\ y \end{matrix} \right) \sim \delta_{0} \] \(\Rightarrow\) \[ \left(\begin{matrix} \hat{x} \\ \hat{y} \end{matrix} \right) \sim N_{2}(\left(\begin{matrix} \hat{x} \\ \hat{y} \end{matrix} \right); \left(\begin{matrix} 0 \\ 0 \end{matrix} \right), \left( \begin{matrix} 1 & \rho \\ \rho & 1 \end{matrix}\right)) \]
\[ f(\hat{x},\hat{y}) = \prod_{i=1}^{n} \frac{1}{2\pi\sqrt{1-\rho^2}} \exp \{-\frac{1}{2(1-\rho^2)}\left[ \hat{x}_{i}^2 + \hat{y}_{i}^2 - 2\rho \hat{x}_{i}\hat{y}_{i}\right] \} \] The MLE of \(\rho\): \[ \begin{align*} l(\rho) &= -\frac{n}{2}\log(1-\rho^2) - \frac{1}{2(1-\rho^2)}\left( \sum_{i=1}^{n} x_{i}^2 + y_{i}^2 - 2\rho x_{i}y_{i} \right) \\ l(\rho)' &= \frac{n\rho}{1-\rho^2} - \frac{\rho}{(1-\rho^2)^2} \sum_{i=1}^{n} (x_{i}^2 + y_{i}^2) + \frac{\rho^2 + 1}{(1-\rho^2)^2} \sum_{i=1}^{n} x_{i}y_{i} = 0 \\ &= \rho^{3} - \rho^{2}\frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^{n} x_{i}y_{i} - \left( 1- \frac{1}{n} \sum_{i=1}^{n} x_{i}^{2} + y_{i}^{2} \right) \rho - \frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^{n} x_{i}y_{i} = 0 \\ l(\rho)'' &= \frac{n(\rho^2+1)}{(1-\rho^2)^2} - \frac{1}{2}\left( \frac{8\rho^2}{(1-\rho^2)^{3}} + \frac{2}{(1-\rho^2)^2} \right)\sum_{i=1}^{n}(x_{i}^2 + y_{i}^2) + \{ \left( \frac{8\rho^2}{(1-\rho^2)^{3}} + \frac{2}{(1-\rho^2)^2} \right)\rho + \frac{4\rho}{(1-\rho^2)^2} \}\sum_{i=1}^{n}x_{i}y_{i} \end{align*} \]
The log likelihood is not a concave function in general. The score function has either 1 or 3 real solutions.
Kendall and Stuart (1979) noted that at least one of the roots is real and lies in the interval [−1, 1]. However, it is possible that all three roots are real and in the admissible interval, in which case the likelihood can be evaluated at each root to determine the true maximum likelihood estimate.
I simulate the data with \(\rho=0.6\) and plot the loglikelihood function:

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\(l(\rho)'\) has one real solution
polyroot(c(- sum(data$Bhat[,1]*data$Bhat[,2]), - (n - sum(data$Bhat[,1]^2 + data$Bhat[,2]^2)), - sum(data$Bhat[,1]*data$Bhat[,2]), n))
[1] 0.6193031+0.000000i 0.0058209+1.009339i 0.0058209-1.009339i
The general derivation is in estimate correlation mle
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Running under: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6
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