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Created January 27, 2018 08:00
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vif_func<-function(in_frame,thresh=10,trace=T,...){
library(fmsb)
if(any(!'data.frame' %in% class(in_frame))) in_frame<-data.frame(in_frame)
#get initial vif value for all comparisons of variables
vif_init<-NULL
var_names <- names(in_frame)
for(val in var_names){
regressors <- var_names[-which(var_names == val)]
form <- paste(regressors, collapse = '+')
form_in <- formula(paste(val, '~', form))
vif_init<-rbind(vif_init, c(val, VIF(lm(form_in, data = in_frame, ...))))
}
vif_max<-max(as.numeric(vif_init[,2]), na.rm = TRUE)
if(vif_max < thresh){
if(trace==T){ #print output of each iteration
prmatrix(vif_init,collab=c('var','vif'),rowlab=rep('',nrow(vif_init)),quote=F)
cat('\n')
cat(paste('All variables have VIF < ', thresh,', max VIF ',round(vif_max,2), sep=''),'\n\n')
}
return(var_names)
}
else{
in_dat<-in_frame
#backwards selection of explanatory variables, stops when all VIF values are below 'thresh'
while(vif_max >= thresh){
vif_vals<-NULL
var_names <- names(in_dat)
for(val in var_names){
regressors <- var_names[-which(var_names == val)]
form <- paste(regressors, collapse = '+')
form_in <- formula(paste(val, '~', form))
vif_add<-VIF(lm(form_in, data = in_dat, ...))
vif_vals<-rbind(vif_vals,c(val,vif_add))
}
max_row<-which(vif_vals[,2] == max(as.numeric(vif_vals[,2]), na.rm = TRUE))[1]
vif_max<-as.numeric(vif_vals[max_row,2])
if(vif_max<thresh) break
if(trace==T){ #print output of each iteration
prmatrix(vif_vals,collab=c('var','vif'),rowlab=rep('',nrow(vif_vals)),quote=F)
cat('\n')
cat('removed: ',vif_vals[max_row,1],vif_max,'\n\n')
flush.console()
}
in_dat<-in_dat[,!names(in_dat) %in% vif_vals[max_row,1]]
}
return(names(in_dat))
}
}
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