Obtaining indices of effect size for Bayesian model is currently an issue, as no test statistics are present to help us compute such indices. The two alternatives (both available in effectsize) is 1) to compute standardized parameters or 2) obtain effect sizes by test-statistic approximation. This second method is described here.
library("ppcor")
df <- iris[, 1:4] # Remove the Species factor
ppcor::pcor(df)$estimate[2:4, 1] # Select the rows of interest> Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width
> 0.63 0.72 -0.34
The goal is to retrieve coefficients similar to the above (partial) correlations for this multiple regression model: Sepal.Length ~ Sepal.Width + Petal.Length + Petal.Width. This can easily be achieved for frequentist models by converting the t statistic into a correlation:
library(effectsize)
library(parameters)
model <- lm(Sepal.Length ~ Sepal.Width + Petal.Length + Petal.Width, data = df)
parameters <- model_parameters(model)[2:4,]
convert_t_to_r(parameters$t, parameters$df_residual)> numeric(0)
Note that these are not equivalent to standardized parameters from multiple regressions (from which coefficients can be higher than 1).
> [1] 0.34 1.51 -0.51
Let’s start by fitting the Bayesian regression:
library("rstanarm")
model <- stan_glm(Sepal.Length ~ Sepal.Width + Petal.Length + Petal.Width, data = df) The effectsize package provides the posteriors_to_r() function, which attempts to estimate the posterior of the (partial) correlation coefficient by approximating the t statistic (deviding the coefficient by the SD of the posterior) and using frequentist degrees of freedom. It is an hybrid method that needs to be validated. However, the results appear as very close:
library(bayestestR)
r <- convert_posteriors_to_r(model)
bayestestR::describe_posterior(r)$Median[2:4]Does it work in all cases?
Let’s start with the frequentist model:
model <- glm(vs ~ cyl + disp + drat, data = mtcars, family = "binomial")
parameters <- model_parameters(model)
parameters$r <- convert_z_to_r(parameters$z, n = insight::n_obs(model))
parametersHowever, as logistic models return log-odds, these can be directly converted to r:
And now the Bayesian:
model <- stan_glm(vs ~ cyl + disp + drat,, data = mtcars, family = "binomial")
parameters <- model_parameters(model)
r <- convert_posteriors_to_r(model)
parameters$r <- bayestestR::describe_posterior(r)$Median
parameters$r_from_odds <- convert_odds_to_r(parameters$Median, log = TRUE)
parameters