logistic_regression_demo.R

library(ggplot2)
library(cowplot)
## NOTE: The data used in this demo comes from the UCI machine learning
## repository.
## http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/index.php
## Specifically, this is the heart disease data set.
## http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Heart+Disease
 
url <- "http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/machine-learning-databases/heart-disease/processed.cleveland.data"
 
data <- read.csv(url, header=FALSE)
 
#####################################
##
## Reformat the data so that it is
## 1) Easy to use (add nice column names)
## 2) Interpreted correctly by glm()..
##
#####################################
head(data) # you see data, but no column names
 
colnames(data) <- c(
  "age",
  "sex",# 0 = female, 1 = male
  "cp", # chest pain
  # 1 = typical angina,
  # 2 = atypical angina,
  # 3 = non-anginal pain,
  # 4 = asymptomatic
  "trestbps", # resting blood pressure (in mm Hg)
  "chol", # serum cholestoral in mg/dl
  "fbs",  # fasting blood sugar if less than 120 mg/dl, 1 = TRUE, 0 = FALSE
  "restecg", # resting electrocardiographic results
  # 1 = normal
  # 2 = having ST-T wave abnormality
  # 3 = showing probable or definite left ventricular hypertrophy
  "thalach", # maximum heart rate achieved
  "exang",   # exercise induced angina, 1 = yes, 0 = no
  "oldpeak", # ST depression induced by exercise relative to rest
  "slope", # the slope of the peak exercise ST segment
  # 1 = upsloping
  # 2 = flat
  # 3 = downsloping
  "ca", # number of major vessels (0-3) colored by fluoroscopy
  "thal", # this is short of thalium heart scan
  # 3 = normal (no cold spots)
  # 6 = fixed defect (cold spots during rest and exercise)
  # 7 = reversible defect (when cold spots only appear during exercise)
  "hd" # (the predicted attribute) - diagnosis of heart disease
  # 0 if less than or equal to 50% diameter narrowing
  # 1 if greater than 50% diameter narrowing
)
 
head(data) # now we have data and column names
 
str(data) # this shows that we need to tell R which columns contain factors
# it also shows us that there are some missing values. There are "?"s
# in the dataset. These are in the "ca" and "thal" columns...
 
## First, convert "?"s to NAs...
data[data == "?"] <- NA
 
## Now add factors for variables that are factors and clean up the factors
## that had missing data...
data[data$sex == 0,]$sex <- "F"
data[data$sex == 1,]$sex <- "M"
data$sex <- as.factor(data$sex)
 
data$cp <- as.factor(data$cp)
data$fbs <- as.factor(data$fbs)
data$restecg <- as.factor(data$restecg)
data$exang <- as.factor(data$exang)
data$slope <- as.factor(data$slope)
 
data$ca <- as.integer(data$ca) # since this column had "?"s in it
# R thinks that the levels for the factor are strings, but
# we know they are integers, so first convert the strings to integiers...
data$ca <- as.factor(data$ca)  # ...then convert the integers to factor levels
 
data$thal <- as.integer(data$thal) # "thal" also had "?"s in it.
data$thal <- as.factor(data$thal)
 
## This next line replaces 0 and 1 with "Healthy" and "Unhealthy"
data$hd <- ifelse(test=data$hd == 0, yes="Healthy", no="Unhealthy")
data$hd <- as.factor(data$hd) # Now convert to a factor
 
str(data) ## this shows that the correct columns are factors
 
## Now determine how many rows have "NA" (aka "Missing data"). If it's just
## a few, we can remove them from the dataset, otherwise we should consider
## imputing the values with a Random Forest or some other imputation method.
nrow(data[is.na(data$ca) | is.na(data$thal),])
data[is.na(data$ca) | is.na(data$thal),]
## so 6 of the 303 rows of data have missing values. This isn't a large
## percentage (2%), so we can just remove them from the dataset
## NOTE: This is different from when we did machine learning with
## Random Forests. When we did that, we imputed values.
nrow(data)
data <- data[!(is.na(data$ca) | is.na(data$thal)),]
nrow(data)
 
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##
## Now we can do some quality control by making sure all of the factor
## levels are represented by people with and without heart disease (hd)
##
## NOTE: We also want to exclude variables that only have 1 or 2 samples in
## a category since +/- one or two samples can have a large effect on the
## odds/log(odds)
##
##
#####################################
xtabs(~ hd + sex, data=data)
xtabs(~ hd + cp, data=data)
xtabs(~ hd + fbs, data=data)
xtabs(~ hd + restecg, data=data)
xtabs(~ hd + exang, data=data)
xtabs(~ hd + slope, data=data)
xtabs(~ hd + ca, data=data)
xtabs(~ hd + thal, data=data)
 
#####################################
##
## Now we are ready for some logistic regression. First we'll create a very
## simple model that uses sex to predict heart disease
##
#####################################
 
## let's start super simple and see if sex (female/male) is a good
## predictor...
## First, let's just look at the raw data...
xtabs(~ hd + sex, data=data)
#           sex
# hd         F   M
# Healthy    71  89
# Unhealthy  25 112
## Most of the females are healthy and most of the males are unhealthy.
## Being female is likely to decrease the odds in being unhealthy.
##    In other words, if a sample is female, the odds are against it that it
##    will be unhealthy
## Being male is likely to increase the odds in being unhealthy...
##    In other words, if a sample is male, the odds are for it being unhealthy
 
###########
##
## Now do the actual logistic regression
##
###########
 
logistic <- glm(hd ~ sex, data=data, family="binomial")
summary(logistic)
## (Intercept)  -1.0438     0.2326  -4.488 7.18e-06 ***
##   sexM        1.2737     0.2725   4.674 2.95e-06 ***
 
## Let's start by going through the first coefficient...
## (Intercept)  -1.0438     0.2326  -4.488 7.18e-06 ***
##
## The intercept is the log(odds) a female will be unhealthy. This is because
## female is the first factor in "sex" (the factors are ordered,
## alphabetically by default,"female", "male")
female.log.odds <- log(25 / 71)
female.log.odds
 
## Now let's look at the second coefficient...
##   sexM        1.2737     0.2725   4.674 2.95e-06 ***
##
## sexM is the log(odds ratio) that tells us that if a sample has sex=M, the
## odds of being unhealthy are, on a log scale, 1.27 times greater than if
## a sample has sex=F.
male.log.odds.ratio <- log((112 / 89) / (25/71))
male.log.odds.ratio
 
## Now calculate the overall "Pseudo R-squared" and its p-value
 
## NOTE: Since we are doing logistic regression...
## Null devaince = 2*(0 - LogLikelihood(null model))
##               = -2*LogLikihood(null model)
## Residual deviacne = 2*(0 - LogLikelihood(proposed model))
##                   = -2*LogLikelihood(proposed model)
ll.null <- logistic$null.deviance/-2
ll.proposed <- logistic$deviance/-2
 
## McFadden's Pseudo R^2 = [ LL(Null) - LL(Proposed) ] / LL(Null)
(ll.null - ll.proposed) / ll.null
 
## chi-square value = 2*(LL(Proposed) - LL(Null))
## p-value = 1 - pchisq(chi-square value, df = 2-1)
1 - pchisq(2*(ll.proposed - ll.null), df=1)
1 - pchisq((logistic$null.deviance - logistic$deviance), df=1)
 
## Lastly, let's  see what this logistic regression predicts, given
## that a patient is either female or male (and no other data about them).
predicted.data <- data.frame(
  probability.of.hd=logistic$fitted.values,
  sex=data$sex)
 
## We can plot the data...
ggplot(data=predicted.data, aes(x=sex, y=probability.of.hd)) +
  geom_point(aes(color=sex), size=5) +
  xlab("Sex") +
  ylab("Predicted probability of getting heart disease")
 
## Since there are only two probabilities (one for females and one for males),
## we can use a table to summarize the predicted probabilities.
xtabs(~ probability.of.hd + sex, data=predicted.data)
 
#####################################
##
## Now we will use all of the data available to predict heart disease
##
#####################################
 
logistic <- glm(hd ~ ., data=data, family="binomial")
summary(logistic)
 
## Now calculate the overall "Pseudo R-squared" and its p-value
ll.null <- logistic$null.deviance/-2
ll.proposed <- logistic$deviance/-2
 
## McFadden's Pseudo R^2 = [ LL(Null) - LL(Proposed) ] / LL(Null)
(ll.null - ll.proposed) / ll.null
 
## The p-value for the R^2
1 - pchisq(2*(ll.proposed - ll.null), df=(length(logistic$coefficients)-1))
 
## now we can plot the data
predicted.data <- data.frame(
  probability.of.hd=logistic$fitted.values,
  hd=data$hd)
 
predicted.data <- predicted.data[
  order(predicted.data$probability.of.hd, decreasing=FALSE),]
predicted.data$rank <- 1:nrow(predicted.data)
 
## Lastly, we can plot the predicted probabilities for each sample having
## heart disease and color by whether or not they actually had heart disease
ggplot(data=predicted.data, aes(x=rank, y=probability.of.hd)) +
  geom_point(aes(color=hd), alpha=1, shape=4, stroke=2) +
  xlab("Index") +
  ylab("Predicted probability of getting heart disease")
 
ggsave("heart_disease_probabilities.pdf")