Introduction to the AHM Package

Sumin Shen, Lulu Kang, and Xinwei Deng

Abstract

We present a short tutorial and introduction to use the package AHM, which is implemented for the additive heredity model discussed in the paper Additive Heredity Model for the Analysis of Mixture-of-Mixtures Experiments in 2019.

Key Words: Additive Heredity Model, Mixture-of-Mixtures Experiments; Nonnegative Garrotte Method.

1. Introduction

The purpose of this package is to provide a solution for the mixture-of-mixtures (MoM) experiments. In the mixture-of-mixtures experiments, the mixture components are called the major components and can be made up of sub-components. The sub-components within the major components are called the minor components. Assume that there are \(q\) major components, and let \(c_k\) be the proportion of the \(k\)th major component. Then, \[ \begin{aligned} \sum_{k =1}^{q} c_{k} = 1, 0 \le c_{k} \le 1, \quad k =1, \ldots, q. \end{aligned} \]

Moreover, each major component is composed of \(m_k\) minor components, whose proportions with respect to \(c_{k}\) are \(x_{kj}\), such that, \[ \begin{aligned} \sum_{l =1}^{m_{k}} x_{kl} = 1, 0 \le x_{kl} \le 1, \quad l = 1, \ldots, m_{k}. \end{aligned} \] The idea is to address this problem by the additive heredity model (AHM). More details about this method is available in the paper Additive Heredity Model for the Analysis of Mixture-of-Mixtures Experiments.

In the package there are two main functions, ahm and cv.ahm. The function ahm is to fit the additive heredity model given the design points. The function cv.ahm is to find an optimized hyper parameter \(h\) used in the AHM via cross validation, and gives out the model fitting results based on the optimal hyper parameter \(h\).

This vignette is intended to get new users quickly on using the AHM package to fit the additive heredity model for the mixture-of-mixtures experiments. Section 2 gives short code snippets on how to use the package for cases in the paper.

2. AHM on Real-Data Analysis

Photoresist-Coating Experiment

The objective of photoresist-coating experiment is to determine the effect of proportions of base resin in the formulation on the photoresist material’s characteristic of interest (Cornell and Ramsey 1998). The major component is defined as the base resin type, and the minor component is defined as the minor resins possessing different dissolution rates (slow and fast). There are two major components: \(c_{1}\) and \(c_{2}\). which are composed of two minor components: \(x_{11}\), \(x_{12}\), and \(x_{21}\), \(x_{22}\), respectively. The range of values of both major and minor components is [0, 1]. In the experiment, the two major component proportions are (\(c_{1}\), \(c_{2}\))=(0.75, 0.25), (0.5, 0.5), and (0.25, 0.75). The two minor component proportions are (\(x_{i1}\), \(x_{i2}\)) = (1, 0), (0.5, 0.5), and (0, 1), where \(i=1, 2\). There are in total 42 measured response at 27 design points. Measurements were replicated twice at certain design points if their minor components’s multiplication, \(x_{11}x_{12}\) and \(x_{21}x_{22}\), are neither equal to zero. The real data are included in the R package.

##    user  system elapsed 
##   0.793   0.016   0.810
## ahm(y = y, x = x, num_major = 2, dist_minor = c(2, 2), type = "weak", 
##     alpha = 0, lambda_seq = seq(0, 5, 0.01), nfolds = NULL, mapping_type = c("power"), 
##     powerh = h_tmp, rep_gcv = 100)
## 
## The mse of model is [1] 1.95786
## ,
## The AICc of model is [1] 45.18574
## ,
## The R2 of model is [1] 0.9982463
## ,
## The estimated coefficients are: 
##            c1       c2       x11      x12       x21      x22     c1.c2
## [1,] 26.03819 29.39445 -6.508719 23.07574 -5.507037 30.04869 -39.62693
##        x11.x12   x21.x22
## [1,] -18.18134 -18.71714
## 
## If power function as the coefficients were used, the power parameter, h, used in the model is [1] 1.1

Use the function cv.ahm to find the optimal value of the hyper parameter \(h\).

Pringles Experiment

In this section, we analyze the Pringles experiment (Kang et al. 2011) of which the goal is to develop a new kind of Pringles potato crisp such that the percentage of fat and the hardness in the potato crisps are optimized. There are three major components: \(c_{1}\), \(c_{2}\), and \(c_{3}\), among which the major components \(c_{1}\) and \(c_{2}\) are composed of two minor components: \(x_{11}\), \(x_{12}\), and \(x_{21}\), and \(x_{22}\), respectively. The major component \(c_{3}\) is a pure material. The constraints on the components are given by \[ \begin{aligned} c_{1}+c_{2}+c_{3}=1, ~~& 0.601 \le c_{1} \le 0.643, \nonumber \\ 0.34 \le c_{2} \le 0.38, ~~& 0.017 \le c_{3} \le 0.019, \nonumber \\ x_{11}+x_{12} = 1, ~~& x_{21} + x_{22} =1, \nonumber \\ 0.835 \le x_{11} \le 0.905, ~~& 0.095 \le x_{12} \le 0.165, \nonumber \\ 0.9 \le x_{21} \le 0.98, ~~& 0.02 \le x_{22} \le 0.1. \nonumber \end{aligned} \] The design points are obtained from a major-minor crossed design. The responses are “Hardnes” and “%Fat”. The real data are included in the R package.

The common functions such as summary, coef, and predict are available for the object.

References

Cornell, J.A. and Ramsey, P.J. (1998). A Generalized mixture model for categorized-components problems with an application to a photoresist-coating experiment. , 40(1), 48-61.

Kang, L., Joseph, V.R. and Brenneman, W.A. (2011). Design and modeling strategies for mixture-of-mixtures experiments. , 53(2), 125–36.

Lawson, J. and Willden, C. (2016). Mixture experiments in R using mixexp. , 72(c02).

Shen, S., Kang, L., and Deng, X. (2019). Additive Heredity Model for the Analysis of Mixture-of-Mixtures Experiments, , in press.