# Linear Regression and ANOVA shaken and stirred

February 21, 2017
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(This article was first published on Pachá (Batteries Included), and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)

Linear Regression and ANOVA concepts are understood as separate concepts most of the times. The truth is they are extremely related to each other being ANOVA a particular case of Linear Regression.

Even worse, its quite common that students do memorize equations and tests instead of trying to understand Linear Algebra and Statistics concepts that can keep you away from misleading results, but that is material for another entry.

Most textbooks present econometric concepts presentic algebraic steps and do empathise about the relationship between Ordinary Least Squares, Maximum Likelihood and other methods to obtain estimates in Linear Regression.

Here I present a combination of little algebra and R commands to try to clarify some concepts.

# Linear Regression


$$\vec{y} = X\vec{\beta} + \vec{e}$$

In R notation, a particular case of this would be the model:

lm(mpg ~ wt + cyl, data = mtcars)

Call:
lm(formula = mpg ~ wt + cyl, data = mtcars)

Coefficients:
(Intercept)           wt          cyl
39.686       -3.191       -1.508


So that, the algebraic expressions

$$\underset{n\times 1}{\vec{y}} = \begin{pmatrix}y_0 \cr y_1 \cr \vdots \cr y_n\end{pmatrix} \text{ and } \underset{n\times p}{X} = \begin{pmatrix}1 & x_{11} & & x_{1p} \cr 1 & x_{21} & & x_{2p} \cr & \ddots & \cr 1 & x_{n1} & & x_{np}\end{pmatrix} = (\vec{1} \: \vec{x}_1 \: \ldots \: \vec{x}_p)$$

are equivalent to this in R notation:

y = mtcars$mpg x0 = rep(1, length(y)) x1 = mtcars$wt
x2 = mtcars$cyl X = cbind(x0,x1,x2)  In linear models the aim is to minimize the error term by chosing $$\hat{\vec{\beta}}$$. One possibility is to minimize the squared error by solving this optimization problem: $$\label{min} \displaystyle \min_{\vec{\beta}} S = \|\vec{y} – X\vec{\beta}\|^2$$ Books such as Baltagi discuss how to solve $$\eqref{min}$$ and other equivalent approaches that result in this optimal estimator: $$\label{beta} \hat{\vec{\beta}} = (X^tX)^{-1} X^t\vec{y}$$ In R is the same to use lm or to perform a matrix multiplication because of equation $$\eqref{beta}$$: fit = lm(y ~ x1 + x2) coefficients(fit)  (Intercept) x1 x2 39.686261 -3.190972 -1.507795  beta = solve(t(X)%*%X) %*% (t(X)%*%y) beta   [,1] x0 39.686261 x1 -3.190972 x2 -1.507795  With one independent variable and intercept, this is $$y_i = \beta_0 + \beta_1 x_{i1} + e_i$$, equation $$\eqref{beta}$$ means: $$\label{beta2} \hat{\beta}_1 = cor(\vec{y},\vec{x}) \cdot \frac{sd(\vec{y})}{sd(\vec{x})} \text{ and } \hat{\beta}_0 = \bar{y} – \hat{\beta}_1 \bar{\vec{x}}$$ Equation $$\eqref{beta2}$$ can be verified with R commands: #install.packages("HistData") require(HistData) y = Galton$child
x = Galton$parent beta1 = cor(y, x) * sd(y) / sd(x) beta0 = mean(y) - beta1 * mean(x) c(beta0, beta1)  [1] 23.9415302 0.6462906  #comparing with lm results lm(y ~ x)  Call: lm(formula = y ~ x) Coefficients: (Intercept) x 23.9415 0.6463  Another possibility in linear models is to rewrite the observations in the outcome and the design matrix with respect to the mean of each variable. That will only alter the intercept but not the slope coefficients. So, for a model like $$y_i = \beta_0 + \beta_1 x_{i1} + \beta_2 x_{i2} + e_i$$ I can write the equivalent model: $$y_i – \bar{y} = \beta_0 + \beta_1 (x_{i1} – \bar{x}_{i1}) + \beta_2 (x_{i2} – \bar{x}_{i2}) + e_i$$ Verifiying in R that the slope coefficients do not change: new_y = mtcars$mpg - mean(mtcars$mpg) new_x1 = mtcars$wt - mean(mtcars$wt) new_x2 = mtcars$cyl - mean(mtcars$cyl) fit2 = lm(new_y ~ new_x1 + new_x2) coefficients(fit2)   (Intercept) new_x1 new_x2 4.710277e-16 -3.190972e+00 -1.507795e+00  new_X = cbind(x0,new_x1,new_x2) new_beta = solve(t(new_X)%*%new_X) %*% (t(new_X)%*%new_y) new_beta   [,1] x0 6.879624e-16 new_x1 -3.190972e+00 new_x2 -1.507795e+00  Here the intercept is close to zero, so I can obtain more information to check the significance: summary(fit2)  Call: lm(formula = new_y ~ new_x1 + new_x2) Residuals: Min 1Q Median 3Q Max -4.2893 -1.5512 -0.4684 1.5743 6.1004 Coefficients: Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|) (Intercept) 7.065e-16 4.539e-01 0.000 1.000000 new_x1 -3.191e+00 7.569e-01 -4.216 0.000222 *** new_x2 -1.508e+00 4.147e-01 -3.636 0.001064 ** --- Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1 Residual standard error: 2.568 on 29 degrees of freedom Multiple R-squared: 0.8302, Adjusted R-squared: 0.8185 F-statistic: 70.91 on 2 and 29 DF, p-value: 6.809e-12  In this particular case I should drop the intercept because its not significant so I write: fit3 = lm(new_y ~ new_x1 + new_x2 - 1) coefficients(fit3)   new_x1 new_x2 -3.190972 -1.507795  new_X = cbind(new_x1,new_x2) new_beta = solve(t(new_X)%*%new_X) %*% (t(new_X)%*%new_y) new_beta   [,1] new_x1 -3.190972 new_x2 -1.507795  # ANOVA The total sum of squares is defined as the sum of explained and residual (or unexplained) sum of squares $$TSS = ESS + RSS = \sum_i (\hat{y}_i – \bar{y})^2 + \sum_i (y_i – \hat{y}_i)^2 = \sum_i (y_i – \bar{y})^2$$ To perform an analysis of variance consider that $$TSS$$ follows an $$F(p,n-1)$$ distribution with $$n-1$$ degrees of freedom. This is, $$ESS$$ has $$p$$ degrees of freedom and $$RSS$$ has $$n-p-1$$ degrees of freedom and the F-statistic is $$F = \frac{ESS/p}{RSS/(n-p-1)}$$ This statistics tests the null hypothesis $$\vec{\beta} = \vec{0}$$. The term analysis of variance refers to categorical predictors so ANOVA is a particular case of the linear model that works around the statistical test just described and the difference in group means. In the mtcars dataset, am can be useful to explain ANOVA as its observations are defined as: $$x_i = \begin{cases}1 &\text{ if car } i \text{ is manual} \cr 0 &\text{ if car } i \text{ is automatic}\end{cases}$$ Now consider a model where the outcome is mpg and design matrix is $$X = (\vec{x}_1 \: \vec{x}_2)$$ so that the terms are defined in this way: y = mtcars$mpg
x1 = mtcars$am x2 = ifelse(x1 == 1, 0, 1)  The estimates without intercept would be: fit = lm(y ~ x1 + x2 - 1) summary(fit)  Call: lm(formula = y ~ x1 + x2 - 1) Residuals: Min 1Q Median 3Q Max -9.3923 -3.0923 -0.2974 3.2439 9.5077 Coefficients: Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|) x1 24.392 1.360 17.94 < 2e-16 *** x2 17.147 1.125 15.25 1.13e-15 *** --- Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1 Residual standard error: 4.902 on 30 degrees of freedom Multiple R-squared: 0.9487, Adjusted R-squared: 0.9452 F-statistic: 277.2 on 2 and 30 DF, p-value: < 2.2e-16  Taking $$\eqref{beta}$$ and replacing in this particular case would result in this estimate: $$\hat{\vec{\beta}} = \begin{bmatrix}\bar{y}_1 \cr \bar{y}_2 \end{bmatrix}$$ being $$\bar{y}_1$$ and $$\bar{y}_2$$ the group means. This can be verified with R commands: y1 = y*x1; y1 = ifelse(y1 == 0, NA, y1) y2 = y*x2; y2 = ifelse(y2 == 0, NA, y2) mean(y1, na.rm = TRUE)  [1] 24.39231  mean(y2, na.rm = TRUE)  [1] 17.14737  If you are not convinced of this result you can write down the algebra or use R commands. I’ll do the last with the notation $$U = (X^tX)^{-1}$$ and $$V = X^t\vec{y}$$: X = cbind(x1,x2) U = solve(t(X)%*%X) V = t(X)%*%y U;V;U%*%V   x1 x2 x1 0.07692308 0.00000000 x2 0.00000000 0.05263158   [,1] x1 317.1 x2 325.8   [,1] x1 24.39231 x2 17.14737  $$U$$ entries are just one over the number of observations of each group and V entries are the sum of mpg observations of each group so that the entries of $$UV$$ are the means of each group: u11 = 1/sum(x1) u22 = 1/sum(x2) v11 = sum(y1, na.rm = TRUE) v21 = sum(y2, na.rm = TRUE) u11;u22  [1] 0.07692308  [1] 0.05263158  v11;v21  [1] 317.1  [1] 325.8  u11*v11;u22*v21  [1] 24.39231  [1] 17.14737  Aside from algebra, now I’ll show the equivalency between lm and aov that is the command used to perform and analysis of variance: y = mtcars$mpg
x1 = mtcars$am x2 = ifelse(x1 == 1, 0, 1) fit2 = aov(y ~ x1 + x2 - 1) fit2$coefficients

      x1       x2
24.39231 17.14737

summary(fit2)

          Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value   Pr(>F)
x1         1   7735    7735   321.9  < 2e-16 ***
x2         1   5587    5587   232.5 1.13e-15 ***
Residuals 30    721      24
---
Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1


The table shows there is no evidence to hold the null hyphotesis, so the difference in group means is statistically significant.

Changing the design matrix to $$X = (\vec{1} \: \vec{x}_1)$$ will lead to the estimate:

$$\hat{\vec{\beta}} = \begin{bmatrix}\bar{y}_2 \cr \bar{y}_1 – \bar{y}_2 \end{bmatrix}$$

Estimating the model results in:

y = mtcars$mpg x1 = mtcars$am

fit = lm(y ~ x1)
summary(fit)

Call:
lm(formula = y ~ x1)

Residuals:
Min      1Q  Median      3Q     Max
-9.3923 -3.0923 -0.2974  3.2439  9.5077

Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept)   17.147      1.125  15.247 1.13e-15 ***
x1             7.245      1.764   4.106 0.000285 ***
---
Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1

Residual standard error: 4.902 on 30 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.3598,    Adjusted R-squared:  0.3385
F-statistic: 16.86 on 1 and 30 DF,  p-value: 0.000285


So to see the relationship between the estimates and the group means I need additional steps:

x0 = rep(1,length(y))
X = cbind(x0,x1)
beta = solve(t(X)%*%X) %*% (t(X)%*%y)
beta

        [,1]
x0 17.147368
x1  7.244939


I did obtain the same estimates with lm command so now I calculate the group means:

x2 = ifelse(x1 == 1, 0, 1)

x1 = ifelse(x1 == 0, NA, x1)
x2 = ifelse(x2 == 0, NA, x2)

m1 = mean(y*x1, na.rm = TRUE)
m2 = mean(y*x2, na.rm = TRUE)

beta0 = m2
beta1 = m1-m2

beta0;beta1

[1] 17.14737

[1] 7.244939


In this case this means that the slope for the two groups is the same but the intercept differences, and therefore exists a positive effect of manual transmission on miles per gallon in average terms.

Again I’ll verify the equivalency between lm and aov in this particular case:

y = mtcars$mpg x1 = mtcars$am
x2 = ifelse(x1 == 1, 0, 1)

fit2 = aov(y ~ x1)
fit2$coefficients  (Intercept) x1 17.147368 7.244939  summary(fit2)   Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F) x1 1 405.2 405.2 16.86 0.000285 *** Residuals 30 720.9 24.0 --- Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1  The table shows there is no evidence to hold the null hyphotesis, so the difference in group means is statistically significant. If now I change the design matrix to $$X = (\vec{1} \: \vec{x}_2)$$ will lead to this estimate: $$\hat{\vec{\beta}} = \begin{bmatrix}\bar{y}_1 \cr \bar{y}_2 – \bar{y}_1\end{bmatrix}$$ Estimating the model gives: y = mtcars$mpg
x1 = mtcars$am x2 = ifelse(x1 == 1, 0, 1) fit = lm(y ~ x2) summary(fit)  Call: lm(formula = y ~ x2) Residuals: Min 1Q Median 3Q Max -9.3923 -3.0923 -0.2974 3.2439 9.5077 Coefficients: Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|) (Intercept) 24.392 1.360 17.941 < 2e-16 *** x2 -7.245 1.764 -4.106 0.000285 *** --- Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1 Residual standard error: 4.902 on 30 degrees of freedom Multiple R-squared: 0.3598, Adjusted R-squared: 0.3385 F-statistic: 16.86 on 1 and 30 DF, p-value: 0.000285  So to see the relationship between the estimates and the group means I need additional steps: x0 = rep(1,length(y)) X = cbind(x0,x2) beta = solve(t(X)%*%X) %*% (t(X)%*%y) beta   [,1] x0 24.392308 x2 -7.244939  I did obtain the same estimates with lm command so now I calculate the group means: x1 = ifelse(x1 == 0, NA, x1) x2 = ifelse(x2 == 0, NA, x2) m1 = mean(y*x1, na.rm = TRUE) m2 = mean(y*x2, na.rm = TRUE) beta0 = m1 beta2 = m2-m1 beta0;beta2  [1] 24.39231  [1] -7.244939  In this case this means that the slope for the two groups is the same but the intercept differences, and therefore exists a negative effect of automatic transmission on miles per gallon in average terms. Again I’ll verify the equivalency between lm and aov in this particular case: y = mtcars$mpg
x1 = mtcars$am x2 = ifelse(x1 == 1, 0, 1) fit2 = aov(y ~ x2) fit2$coefficients

(Intercept)          x2
24.392308   -7.244939

summary(fit2)

            Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value   Pr(>F)
x2           1  405.2   405.2   16.86 0.000285 ***
Residuals   30  720.9    24.0
---
Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1


The table shows there is no evidence to hold the null hyphotesis, so the difference in group means is statistically significant.

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