components_seq_scree {weitrix} | R Documentation

## Proportion more variance explained by adding components one at a time

### Description

Based on the output of `components_seq`, work out how much further variance is explained by adding further components.

### Usage

    components_seq_scree(comp_seq, rand_comp = NULL)

    components_seq_screeplot(comp_seq, rand_comp = NULL)

### Arguments

`comp_seq` | A list of Components objects, as produced by `components_seq`.
`rand_comp` | Optional. A Components object with a single component. This should be based on a randomized version of the weitrix, for example as produced by `weitrix_components(weitrix_randomize(my_weitrix), p=1)`.

### Details

If `rand_comp` is given, some possible threshold levels for including further components are also calculated.

The "Parallel analysis" threshold is chosen based on varianced explained by a single component in a randomized weitrix.

The "Optimistic" thresholds are chosen starting from the "Parallel Analysis" threshold. We view the Parallel Analysis threshold as indicating random variance is split amongst an effective number of samples, which will be somewhat smaller than the real number of samples. As each component is accepted, the pool of remaining variance is reduced by its contribution, and also the number of effective samples is reduced by one. The threshold is then the size of the remaining variance pool divided by the effective remaining number of samples. This is a somewhat ad-hoc method, but may indicate more components are justified than by criteria based on a flat threshold.

### Value

`components_seq_scree` returns a data frame listing the variance explained by each further component.

`components_seq_screeplot` returns a ggplot2 plot object.

### Examples

    comp_seq <- weitrix_components_seq(simwei, 4, verbose=FALSE)

    components_seq_scree(comp_seq)
    components_seq_screeplot(comp_seq)

[Package weitrix version 1.6.0 Index]