Errors producing a prior predictive distribution using smoothers in stan_gamm4 with rstanarm

kaybenleroll · July 15, 2020, 11:15am

I am having difficulty generating a prior predictive distribution for my count model when I try to add smooth predictors to the model.

I have included a reproducible example below where I generate the input data (much more concise than just pasting in the output of the data generation).

library(tidyverse)
library(rstanarm)


set.seed(42)
stan_seed <- 42


sector_vals <- c("Technology", "Industrials", "Communications")
mktcap_vals <- c("QN1", "QN2", "QN3", "QN4", "QN5")
btm_vals    <- c("QN1", "QN2", "QN3", "QN4", "QN5")


create_company_details <- function(n) {
  details_tbl <- tibble(
    sector      = sample(sector_vals, n, replace = TRUE),
    mktcap_qn   = sample(mktcap_vals, n, replace = TRUE),
    btm_qn      = sample(btm_vals,    n, replace = TRUE),
    prev3_cases = sample(c("0", "1", "2", "3+"), n,
                         prob = c(0.90, 0.06, 0.03, 0.01),
                         replace = TRUE),
    obs_cases   = sample(0:2, size = n,
                         prob = c(0.90, 0.08, 0.02),
                         replace = TRUE)
  )

  return(details_tbl)
}

example_data_tbl <- tibble(year = 2000:2018) %>%
  mutate(n_company = rnbinom(n(), mu = 5000, size = 50),
         data      = map(n_company, create_company_details)
    ) %>%
  select(-n_company) %>%
  unnest(data)


temp_prior_stanreg <- stan_gamm4(
  obs_cases ~ s(year, k = 4) + sector + mktcap_qn + btm_qn + prev3_cases,
  data     = example_data_tbl,
  random   = NULL,
  family   = neg_binomial_2(),
  iter     = 1000,
  chains   = 8,
  QR       = TRUE,
  prior_intercept = normal(location = -4, scale = 1.0, autoscale = FALSE),
  prior_smooth    = normal(location =  0, scale = 1.0, autoscale = FALSE),
  prior_aux       = normal(location =  0, scale = 1.0, autoscale = FALSE),
  prior           = normal(location =  0, scale = 1.0, autoscale = FALSE),
  prior_covariance = decov(),
  prior_PD = TRUE,
  seed     = stan_seed
)

The “generated quantities” appears to be creating zero or negative values for the count RNG.

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starting worker pid=6109 on localhost:11285 at 11:00:49.594

SAMPLING FOR MODEL 'count' NOW (CHAIN 1).
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Chain 1: Exception: poisson_rng: Rate parameter is 0, but must be > 0!  (in 'model_count' at line 205)


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Error in checkForRemoteErrors(val) : 
  8 nodes produced errors; first error: invalid class “stanfit” object: The following variables have undefined values:  alpha[1],The following variables have undefined values:  mean_PPD

I imagine I need to adjust the various priors to prevent this from happening, but I am not sure how to proceed?

My old version of the model had the year as a categorical and I used stan_glm without the smoothing on year, and that worked fine, but I am not sure what to do for this case where I want to use smoothing.

The code is running on a Docker instance based on rocker/verse:4.0.0 with rstanarm 2.19.3

Thanks in advance for all your help!

Happy to give more details if needed.

Ara_Winter · July 15, 2020, 1:02pm

You can try changing the seed as in this thread here:

I know a lot folks don’t run with seed values initially.

You might want to also set the init value to 0 or 1 I can’t remember with the poosson_rng what the init should be at.

kaybenleroll · July 15, 2020, 2:01pm

There were a few typos in my reprex, so I fixed those.

No luck so far changing seeds, but I thought with the init values you just specify an interval for the unconstrained space - either way, this all sounds fairly brittle so I suspect I will need to change my priors to sort the problem properly.

kaybenleroll · July 31, 2020, 4:33pm

Just bumping this thread in case someone has some pointers for this - it may not be doable as it stands.

jonah · August 4, 2020, 12:38am

@kaybenleroll Thanks for bumping the thread. When prior_PD = TRUE I think we can turn off the part of generated quantities where the error is occurring without affecting anything. I’ll fix this on GitHub, but there’s a hack you can use in the meantime (I think, can you let me know if this works?). Right before running your code to create temp_prior_stanreg can you try running this?

stan_glm.fit2 <- rstanarm::stan_glm.fit
args <- formals(stan_glm.fit2)
args$mean_PPD <- FALSE
formals(stan_glm.fit2) <- args
assignInNamespace("stan_glm.fit", stan_glm.fit2, ns = "rstanarm")
# now run your code for temp_prior_stanreg

kaybenleroll · August 4, 2020, 10:29am

Thanks @jonah - I’ll try that in the next hour or so and let you know how I get on.

kaybenleroll · August 4, 2020, 2:02pm

@jonah - I think the second line didn’t need the rstanarm:: part due to the assignment in the first line, but that did seem to do the trick - I can now run it to get a prior predictive distribution.

jonah · August 4, 2020, 3:22pm

Oh, you’re right, thanks. Just edited my post to fix that.

Great, glad that works! I fixed this on GitHub so it shouldn’t be necessary to use this workaround when the next release comes out.

kaybenleroll · August 4, 2020, 4:39pm

Brilliant - I’ll use the workaround for now and keep an eye out for the next release.

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