Simulate randomized quantile residuals from a model — simulate

Returns simulated residuals from a model. This is useful for checking the uniformity of residuals, in particular for non-Gaussian models, where the residuals are not expected to be normally distributed.

Usage

simulate_residuals(x, iterations = 250, ...)

# S3 method for performance_simres
residuals(object, quantile_function = NULL, outlier_values = NULL, ...)

Arguments

x: A model object.
iterations: Number of simulations to run.
...: Arguments passed on to DHARMa::simulateResiduals().
object: A performance_simres object, as returned by simulate_residuals().
quantile_function: A function to apply to the residuals. If NULL, the residuals are returned as is. If not NULL, the residuals are passed to this function. This is useful for returning normally distributed residuals, for example: residuals(x, quantile_function = qnorm).
outlier_values: A vector of length 2, specifying the values to replace -Inf and Inf with, respectively.

Value

Simulated residuals, which can be further processed with check_residuals(). The returned object is of class DHARMa and performance_simres.

Details

This function is a small wrapper around DHARMa::simulateResiduals(). It basically only sets plot = FALSE and adds an additional class attribute ("performance_sim_res"), which allows using the DHARMa object in own plotting functions from the see package. See also vignette("DHARMa"). There is a plot() method to visualize the distribution of the residuals.

Tests based on simulated residuals

For certain models, resp. model from certain families, tests like check_zeroinflation() or check_overdispersion() are based on simulated residuals. These are usually more accurate for such tests than the traditionally used Pearson residuals. However, when simulating from more complex models, such as mixed models or models with zero-inflation, there are several important considerations. simulate_residuals() relies on DHARMa::simulateResiduals(), and additional arguments specified in ... are passed further down to that function. The defaults in DHARMa are set on the most conservative option that works for all models. However, in many cases, the help advises to use different settings in particular situations or for particular models. It is recommended to read the 'Details' in ?DHARMa::simulateResiduals closely to understand the implications of the simulation process and which arguments should be modified to get the most accurate results.

References

Hartig, F., & Lohse, L. (2022). DHARMa: Residual Diagnostics for Hierarchical (Multi-Level / Mixed) Regression Models (Version 0.4.5). Retrieved from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=DHARMa
Dunn, P. K., & Smyth, G. K. (1996). Randomized Quantile Residuals. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 5(3), 236. doi:10.2307/1390802

Examples

m <- lm(mpg ~ wt + cyl + gear + disp, data = mtcars)
simulate_residuals(m)
#> Simulated residuals from a model of class `lm` based on 250 simulations.
#>   Use `check_residuals()` to check uniformity of residuals or
#>   `residuals()` to extract simulated residuals. It is recommended to refer
#>   to `?DHARMa::simulateResiudals` and `vignette("DHARMa")` for more
#>   information about different settings in particular situations or for
#>   particular models.

# extract residuals
head(residuals(simulate_residuals(m)))
#> [1] 0.356 0.448 0.096 0.568 0.668 0.204