I am getting an error message trying to predict class membership in lcmm::predictClass(). This seems to be due to using a spline-based link function, as exemplified below. The lcmm::predictClass() function works okay for the default link function.
The following shows 1) a reproduceable example giving the error message, and 2) a working example with the same broad approach.
## define initialisation values for quick result here
BB <- c(-19.064,21.718,-1.192,-1.295,-1.205,-0.281,0.110,
-0.232, 1.339,-1.007, 1.019,-9.395, 1.702,2.030,
2.089, 1.352,-9.369, 1.220, 1.532, 2.481,1.223)
library(lcmm)
m2c <- multlcmm(Ydep1+Ydep2~1+Time*X2,
random=~1+Time,
subject="ID",
link="3-quant-splines",
ng=2,
mixture=~1+Time,
classmb=~1+X1,
data=data_lcmm,
B=BB)
## converges in 3 iterations
## define the prediction cases
library(dplyr)
X <- data_lcmm %>%
filter(ID %in% sample(ID,10)) %>% ## 10 random IDs
select(ID,Ydep1,Ydep2,Time,X1,X2)
## find predicted class memberships
predictClass(m2c, newdata=X)
## Error in multlcmm(fixed = Ydep1 + Ydep2 ~ 1 + Time * X2, mixture = ~1 + :
## Length of vector range is not correct.
On the other hand, a similar approach with a linear link function gives the following. Note that these models are based on the example in the ?multlcmm help section.
library(lcmm)
m2 <- multlcmm(Ydep1+Ydep2~1+Time*X2,
random=~1+Time,
subject="ID",
link="linear",
ng=2,
mixture=~1+Time,
classmb=~1+X1,
data=data_lcmm,
B=c(18,-20.77,1.16,-1.41,-1.39,-0.32,0.16,
-0.26,1.69,1.12,1.1,10.8,1.24,24.88,1.89))
## converges in 2 iterations
library(dplyr)
X <- data_lcmm %>%
filter(ID %in% sample(ID,10)) %>%
select(ID,Ydep1,Ydep2,Time,X1,X2)
predictClass(m2, newdata=X)
## ID class prob1 prob2
## 1 21 2 0.031948951 9.680510e-01
## 2 25 2 0.042938984 9.570610e-01
## 3 33 2 0.026053178 9.739468e-01
## 4 46 1 0.999999964 3.597409e-08
## 5 50 2 0.066291287 9.337087e-01
## 6 74 2 0.005630593 9.943694e-01
## 7 120 2 0.024787290 9.752127e-01
## 8 171 2 0.053499974 9.465000e-01
## 9 229 1 0.999999996 4.368222e-09
##10 235 2 0.008173507 9.918265e-01
## ...or similar
The other predict functions predictL() and predictY() seem to work okay. The predictRE() throws the same error message.
I will also email the package maintainer.