This function generates null samples of a given subset of variables for Gaussian copula covariates.

sample.g_copula.nulls(X, S, K, gamma_X.list_S, sigma_X.list_S, verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

X

a n by p matrix, containing the Gaussian vectors before applying the probability integral transform

S

a subset of covariates, for which null samples are constructed.

K

number of null replicates.

gamma_X.list_S

a list of length |S|, with each element being the linear coefficient of the given covariate on the other covariates (before the probability integral transform).

sigma_X.list_S

a list of length |S|, with each element being the variance of the conditional distribution (before the probability integral transform).

verbose

whether to show intermediate progress (default: FALSE).

Value

A list of length |S|, with each element being a (n*K)-dimensional vector, which contains K set of null samples.

References

Zhang L, Janson L (2020). “Floodgate: Inference for Model-Free Variable Importance.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.01283.

See also

Other sampling: cosuff.g_copula.nulls(), cosuff.gaussian.nulls(), sample.gaussian.nulls()