[R] Bootstrap and average median squared error

Rui Barradas ruipb@rr@d@@ @ending from @@po@pt
Tue May 22 11:32:34 CEST 2018


I forgot, you should also set.seed() before calling boot() to make the 
results reproducible.

Rui Barradas

On 5/22/2018 10:00 AM, Rui Barradas wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> If you want to bootstrap a statistic, I suggest you use base package boot.
> You would need the data in a data.frame, see how you could do it.
> 
> 
> library(boot)
> 
> bootMedianSE <- function(data, indices){
>      d <- data[indices, ]
>      fit <- rq(crp ~ bmi + glucose, tau = 0.5, data = d)
>      ypred <- predict(fit)
>      y <- d$crp
>      median(y - ypred)^2
> }
> 
> dat <- data.frame(crp, bmi, glucose)
> nboot <- 100
> 
> medse <- boot(dat, bootMedianSE, R = nboot)
> 
> medse$t0
> mean(medse$t)    # This is the value you want
> 
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Rui Barradas
> 
> 
> 
> On 5/22/2018 12:19 AM, varin sacha via R-help wrote:
>> Dear R-experts,
>>
>> I am trying to bootstrap (and average) the median squared error 
>> evaluation metric for a robust regression. I can't get it. What is 
>> going wrong ?
>>
>> Here is the reproducible example.
>>
>> #############################
>> install.packages( "quantreg" )
>> library(quantreg)
>>
>> crp <-c(12,14,13,24,25,34,45,56,25,34,47,44,35,24,53,44,55,46,36,67)
>> bmi <-c(34,32,12,76,54,34,21,18,92,32,11,13,45,46,56,57,67,87,12,13)
>> glucose <-c(23,54,11,12,13,21,32,12,45,54,65,87,21,23,12,12,23,23,43,54)
>>
>> # Create a list to store the results
>> lst<-list()
>>
>> # Numbers of bootstrap samples
>> nboot=100
>> bootstrap.MedAESQ =rep(NA,nboot)
>>
>> for(i in 1 :nboot)
>> {
>>
>> fit <- rq( crp ~ bmi+glucose, tau = 0.5)
>> ypred=predict(fit)
>> y=new$crp
>> bootstrap.MedAESQ [i]=median(y-ypred)^2
>> lst[i]<-bootstrap.MedAESQ
>>
>> }
>> mean(unlist(lst))
>> ###################################
>>
>>
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