Fast Linear Models with Armadillo

Dirk Eddelbuettel — written Dec 19, 2012 — source

Armadillo is a C++ linear algebra library aiming towards a good balance between speed and ease of use. Integer, floating point and complex numbers are supported, as well as a subset of trigonometric and statistics functions. Various matrix decompositions are provided through optional integration with LAPACK and ATLAS libraries. A delayed evaluation approach is employed (during compile time) to combine several operations into one and reduce (or eliminate) the need for temporaries. This is accomplished through recursive templates and template meta-programming.

Here is a simple implementation of a fast linear regression (note this is also provided by the RcppArmadillo package via the fastLm() function):

// [[Rcpp::depends(RcppArmadillo)]]

#include <RcppArmadillo.h>
using namespace Rcpp;

// [[Rcpp::export]]
List fastLm(const arma::vec & y, const arma::mat & X) {

    int n = X.n_rows, k = X.n_cols;
   
    arma::colvec coef = arma::solve(X, y); 
    arma::colvec resid = y - X*coef; 
   
    double sig2 = arma::as_scalar(arma::trans(resid)*resid/(n-k));
    arma::colvec stderrest = 
        arma::sqrt(sig2 * arma::diagvec( arma::inv(arma::trans(X)*X)) );
   
   return List::create(Named("coefficients") = coef,
                       Named("stderr")       = stderrest);
}

tags: modeling armadillo

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