arviz_stats.loo

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arviz_stats.loo#

arviz_stats.loo(data, pointwise=None, var_name=None, reff=None)[source]#

Compute Pareto-smoothed importance sampling leave-one-out cross-validation (PSIS-LOO-CV).

Estimates the expected log pointwise predictive density (elpd) using Pareto-smoothed importance sampling leave-one-out cross-validation (PSIS-LOO-CV). Also calculates LOO’s standard error and the effective number of parameters. The method is described in [1] and [2].

Parameters:
dataxarray.DataTree or InferenceData

Input data. It should contain the posterior and the log_likelihood groups.

pointwise: bool, optional

If True the pointwise predictive accuracy will be returned. Defaults to rcParams["stats.ic_pointwise"].

var_namestr, optional

The name of the variable in log_likelihood groups storing the pointwise log likelihood data to use for loo computation.

reff: float, optional

Relative MCMC efficiency, ess / n i.e. number of effective samples divided by the number of actual samples. Computed from trace by default.

Returns:
ELPDData

Object with the following attributes:

  • elpd: expected log pointwise predictive density

  • se: standard error of the elpd

  • p: effective number of parameters

  • n_samples: number of samples

  • n_data_points: number of data points

  • warning: True if the estimated shape parameter of Pareto distribution is greater than good_k.

  • elp_i: DataArray with the pointwise predictive accuracy, only if pointwise=True

  • pareto_k: array of Pareto shape values, only if pointwise=True

  • good_k: For a sample size S, the threshold is computed as min(1 - 1/log10(S), 0.7)

  • approx_posterior: True if approximate posterior was used.

See also

compare

Compare models based on their ELPD.

arviz_plots.plot_compare

Summary plot for model comparison.

References

[1]

Vehtari et al. Practical Bayesian model evaluation using leave-one-out cross-validation and WAIC. Statistics and Computing. 27(5) (2017) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11222-016-9696-4 arXiv preprint https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.04544.

[2]

Vehtari et al. Pareto Smoothed Importance Sampling. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 25(72) (2024) https://jmlr.org/papers/v25/19-556.html arXiv preprint https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.02646

Examples

Calculate LOO of a model:

In [1]: from arviz_stats import loo
   ...: from arviz_base import load_arviz_data
   ...: data = load_arviz_data("centered_eight")
   ...: loo_data = loo(data)
   ...: loo_data
   ...: 
Out[1]: 
Computed from 2000 posterior samples and 8 observations log-likelihood matrix.

         Estimate       SE
elpd_loo   -30.78     1.35
p_loo        0.95        -
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Pareto k diagnostic values:
                         Count   Pct.
(-Inf, 0.70]   (good)        8  100.0%
   (0.70, 1]   (bad)         0    0.0%
    (1, Inf)   (very bad)    0    0.0%

Return the pointwise values:

In [2]: loo_data.elpd_i
Out[2]: 
<xarray.DataArray 'obs' (school: 8)> Size: 64B
array([-4.89190585, -3.41968688, -3.86727944, -3.46496198, -3.4780878 ,
       -3.49926442, -4.2004696 , -3.95934834])
Coordinates:
  * school   (school) <U16 512B 'Choate' 'Deerfield' ... 'Mt. Hermon'
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