ICC

From 太極
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Basic

ICC: intra-class correlation

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intraclass_correlation (the random effect [math]\displaystyle{ \alpha_j }[/math] in the one-way random model should be subjects, not raters)
    • For the 1st 2 dot plots on the wikipedia, y-axis is raters values, x-axis is groups. However in the R package such as like irr, rows = subjects, columns = raters (reversed).
    • In the 3 scenario scatterplots on the wikipedia, x-axis represents rater 1 & y-axis represents rater 2. Different points represent different subjects.
    • measure the reliability/consistency/agreement of ratings in studies where there are two or more raters (主角).
    • It describes how strongly units in the same group resemble each other. (Cf ICC(1,1) model, the group has the same concept of subject. That is, ICC is used to measure to what extent are the ratings within a subject homogeneous.) So the dot plots shown on the wikipedia should be rotated in order to match with the row/column meaning in the real data matrix.
    • (Early def of ICC) In the case of paired data (N groups, each group has 2 values), The key difference between this ICC and the interclass (Pearson) correlation is that the data are pooled to estimate the mean and variance. The reason for this is that in the setting where an intraclass correlation is desired, the pairs are considered to be unordered.
    • Intraclass Correlation from Statistics How To
    • Shrout, P.E., Fleiss, J.L. (1979), Intraclass correlation: uses in assessing rater reliability, Psychological Bulletin, 86, 420-428.
    • ICC(1,1): each subject is measured by a different set of k randomly selected raters?;
    • ICC(2,1): k raters are randomly selected, then, each subject is measured by the same set of k raters;
    • ICC(3,1): similar to ICC(2,1) but k raters are fixed.
  • (Modern ICC definitions) [math]\displaystyle{ Y_{ij} = \mu + \alpha_i + \varepsilon_{ij}, }[/math] where [math]\displaystyle{ \alpha_i }[/math] is the random effect from subject i (or group/target but not rater/judge),
[math]\displaystyle{ ICC(1,1) = \frac{\sigma_\alpha^2}{\sigma_\alpha^2+\sigma_\varepsilon^2}. }[/math]
The intraclass correlation is the ratio of the variance attributable to subjects divided by the total of subject and error variances. See also the formula and estimation here. The intuition can be found in examples where the 1st case has large [math]\displaystyle{ \sigma_\alpha^2 }[/math] and the other does not.

Interpretation

R packages

The main input is a matrix of n subjects x p raters. Each rater is a class/group.

  • psych: ICC()
  • irr: icc() for one-way or two-way model. This works on my data 30k by 58. The default option gives ICC(1). It can also compute ICC(A,1)/agreement and ICC(C,1)/consistency.
  • psy: icc(). No options are provided. I got an error: vector memory exhausted (limit reached?) when the data is 30k by 58.
  • rptR:

Negative ICC

Examples

psych package data

It shows ICC1 = ICC(1,1) 

R> library(psych)
R> (o <- ICC(anxiety, lmer=FALSE) )
Call: ICC(x = anxiety, lmer = FALSE)

Intraclass correlation coefficients 
                         type  ICC   F df1 df2     p lower bound upper bound
Single_raters_absolute   ICC1 0.18 1.6  19  40 0.094     -0.0405        0.44
Single_random_raters     ICC2 0.20 1.8  19  38 0.056     -0.0045        0.45
Single_fixed_raters      ICC3 0.22 1.8  19  38 0.056     -0.0073        0.48
Average_raters_absolute ICC1k 0.39 1.6  19  40 0.094     -0.1323        0.70
Average_random_raters   ICC2k 0.43 1.8  19  38 0.056     -0.0136        0.71
Average_fixed_raters    ICC3k 0.45 1.8  19  38 0.056     -0.0222        0.73

 Number of subjects = 20     Number of Judges =  3

R> library(irr)
R> (o2 <- icc(anxiety, model="oneway")) # subjects be considered as random effects
 Single Score Intraclass Correlation

   Model: oneway 
   Type : consistency 

   Subjects = 20 
     Raters = 3 
     ICC(1) = 0.175

 F-Test, H0: r0 = 0 ; H1: r0 > 0 
   F(19,40) = 1.64 , p = 0.0939 

 95%-Confidence Interval for ICC Population Values:
  -0.077 < ICC < 0.484

R> o$results["Single_raters_absolute", "ICC"]
[1] 0.1750224
R> o2$value
[1] 0.1750224

R> icc(anxiety, model="twoway", type = "consistency")
 Single Score Intraclass Correlation

   Model: twoway 
   Type : consistency 

   Subjects = 20 
     Raters = 3 
   ICC(C,1) = 0.216

 F-Test, H0: r0 = 0 ; H1: r0 > 0 
   F(19,38) = 1.83 , p = 0.0562 

 95%-Confidence Interval for ICC Population Values:
  -0.046 < ICC < 0.522
R> icc(anxiety, model="twoway", type = "agreement")
 Single Score Intraclass Correlation

   Model: twoway 
   Type : agreement 

   Subjects = 20 
     Raters = 3 
   ICC(A,1) = 0.198

 F-Test, H0: r0 = 0 ; H1: r0 > 0 
 F(19,39.7) = 1.83 , p = 0.0543 

 95%-Confidence Interval for ICC Population Values:
  -0.039 < ICC < 0.494

library(magrittr)
library(tidyr)
library(ggplot2)

set.seed(1)
r1 <- round(rnorm(20, 10, 4))
r2 <- round(r1 + 10 + rnorm(20, 0, 2))
r3 <- round(r1 + 20 + rnorm(20, 0, 2))
df <- data.frame(r1, r2, r3) %>% pivot_longer(cols=1:3)
df %>% ggplot(aes(x=name, y=value)) + geom_point()

df0 <- cbind(r1, r2, r3)
icc(df0, model="oneway")  #  ICC(1) = -0.262  --> Negative. 
                          #  Shift can mess up the ICC. See wikipedia.
icc(df0, model="twoway", type = "consistency")  # ICC(C,1) = 0.846 --> Make sense
icc(df0, model="twoway", type = "agreement")    # ICC(A,1) = 0.106 --> Why?

ICC(df0)
Call: ICC(x = df0, lmer = T)

Intraclass correlation coefficients 
                         type   ICC     F df1 df2       p lower bound upper bound
Single_raters_absolute   ICC1 -0.26  0.38  19  40 9.9e-01     -0.3613      -0.085
Single_random_raters     ICC2  0.11 17.43  19  38 2.9e-13      0.0020       0.293
Single_fixed_raters      ICC3  0.85 17.43  19  38 2.9e-13      0.7353       0.920
Average_raters_absolute ICC1k -1.65  0.38  19  40 9.9e-01     -3.9076      -0.307
Average_random_raters   ICC2k  0.26 17.43  19  38 2.9e-13      0.0061       0.555
Average_fixed_raters    ICC3k  0.94 17.43  19  38 2.9e-13      0.8929       0.972

 Number of subjects = 20     Number of Judges =  3

Wine rating

Intraclass Correlation: Multiple Approaches from David C. Howell. The data appeared on the paper by Shrout and Fleiss 1979.

Winerating.png 

library(magrittr)
library(psych); library(lme4)
rating <- matrix(c(9,    2,   5,    8,
                   6,    1,   3,    2,
                   8,    4,   6,    8,
                   7,    1,   2,    6,
                   10,   5,   6,    9,
                   6,   2,   4,    7), ncol=4, byrow=TRUE)
(o <- ICC(rating))
o$results[, 1:2]
#                         type       ICC
#Single_raters_absolute   ICC1 0.1657423  # match with icc(, "oneway")
#Single_random_raters     ICC2 0.2897642  # match with icc(, "twoway", "agreement")
#Single_fixed_raters      ICC3 0.7148415  # match with icc(, "twoway", "consistency")
#Average_raters_absolute ICC1k 0.4427981
#Average_random_raters   ICC2k 0.6200510
#Average_fixed_raters    ICC3k 0.9093159

# Plot
rating2 <- data.frame(rating) %>% 
  dplyr::bind_cols(data.frame(subj = paste0("s", 1:nrow(rating)))) %>% 
  tidyr::pivot_longer(1:4, names_to="group", values_to="y")

rating2 %>% ggplot(aes(x=group, y=y)) + geom_point()

library(irr)
icc(rating, "oneway")
# Single Score Intraclass Correlation
#
#   Model: oneway 
#   Type : consistency 
#
#   Subjects = 6 
#     Raters = 4 
#     ICC(1) = 0.166
#
# F-Test, H0: r0 = 0 ; H1: r0 > 0 
#    F(5,18) = 1.79 , p = 0.165 
#
# 95%-Confidence Interval for ICC Population Values:
#  -0.133 < ICC < 0.723

icc(rating, "twoway", "agreement")
# Single Score Intraclass Correlation
#
#   Model: twoway 
#   Type : agreement 
#
#   Subjects = 6 
#     Raters = 4 
#   ICC(A,1) = 0.29
#
# F-Test, H0: r0 = 0 ; H1: r0 > 0 
#  F(5,4.79) = 11 , p = 0.0113 
#
# 95%-Confidence Interval for ICC Population Values:
#  0.019 < ICC < 0.761

icc(rating, "twoway", "consistency")
# Single Score Intraclass Correlation
#
#   Model: twoway 
#   Type : consistency 
#
#   Subjects = 6 
#     Raters = 4 
#   ICC(C,1) = 0.715
#
# F-Test, H0: r0 = 0 ; H1: r0 > 0 
#    F(5,15) = 11 , p = 0.000135 
#
# 95%-Confidence Interval for ICC Population Values:
#  0.342 < ICC < 0.946

anova(aov(y ~ subj + group, rating2))
# Analysis of Variance Table
#
# Response: y
#           Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value    Pr(>F)    
# subj       5 56.208  11.242  11.027 0.0001346 ***
# group      3 97.458  32.486  31.866 9.454e-07 ***
# Residuals 15 15.292   1.019                      
# ---
# Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

(11.242 - (97.458+15.292)/18) / (11.242 + 3*(97.458+15.292)/18)
# [1] 0.165751   # ICC(1) = (BMS - WMS) / (BMS + (k-1)WMS)
                 # k = number of raters

(11.242 - 1.019) / (11.242 + 3*1.019 + 4*(32.486-1.019)/6)
# [1] 0.2897922  # ICC(2,1) = (BMS - EMS) / (BMS + (k-1)EMS + k(JMS-EMS)/n)
                 # n = number of subjects/targets

(11.242 - 1.019) / (11.242 + 3*1.019)
# [1] 0.7149451  # ICC(3,1)

Wine rating2

Intraclass correlation (from Real Statistics Using Excel) with a simple example. 

R> wine <- cbind(c(1,1,3,6,6,7,8,9), c(2,3,8,4,5,5,7,9), 
                 c(0,3,1,3,5,6,7,9), c(1,2,4,3,6,2,9,8))
R> icc(wine, model="oneway")
 Single Score Intraclass Correlation

   Model: oneway 
   Type : consistency 

   Subjects = 8 
     Raters = 4 
     ICC(1) = 0.728

 F-Test, H0: r0 = 0 ; H1: r0 > 0 
    F(7,24) = 11.7 , p = 2.18e-06 

 95%-Confidence Interval for ICC Population Values:
  0.434 < ICC < 0.927

# For one-way random model, the order of raters is not important
R> wine2 <- wine
R> for(j in 1:8) wine2[j, ] <- sample(wine[j,])
R> icc(wine2, model="oneway")
 Single Score Intraclass Correlation

   Model: oneway 
   Type : consistency 

   Subjects = 8 
     Raters = 4 
     ICC(1) = 0.728

 F-Test, H0: r0 = 0 ; H1: r0 > 0 
    F(7,24) = 11.7 , p = 2.18e-06 

 95%-Confidence Interval for ICC Population Values:
  0.434 < ICC < 0.927

R> icc(wine, model="twoway", type="agreement")
 Single Score Intraclass Correlation

   Model: twoway 
   Type : agreement 

   Subjects = 8 
     Raters = 4 
   ICC(A,1) = 0.728

 F-Test, H0: r0 = 0 ; H1: r0 > 0 
    F(7,24) = 11.8 , p = 2.02e-06 

 95%-Confidence Interval for ICC Population Values:
  0.434 < ICC < 0.927

R> icc(wine, model="twoway", type="consistency")
 Single Score Intraclass Correlation

   Model: twoway 
   Type : consistency 

   Subjects = 8 
     Raters = 4 
   ICC(C,1) = 0.729

 F-Test, H0: r0 = 0 ; H1: r0 > 0 
    F(7,21) = 11.8 , p = 5.03e-06 

 95%-Confidence Interval for ICC Population Values:
  0.426 < ICC < 0.928

Two-way fixed effects model 

R> wine3 <- data.frame(wine) %>% 
            dplyr::bind_cols(data.frame(subj = paste0("s", 1:8))) %>% 
            tidyr::pivot_longer(1:4, names_to="group", values_to="y")
R> wine3 %>% ggplot(aes(x=group, y=y)) + geom_point()

R> anova(aov(y ~ subj + group, data = wine3))
Analysis of Variance Table

Response: y
          Df  Sum Sq Mean Sq F value    Pr(>F)    
subj       7 188.219 26.8884 11.7867 5.026e-06 ***
group      3   7.344  2.4479  1.0731    0.3818    
Residuals 21  47.906  2.2813                      
---
Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

R> anova(aov(y ~ group + subj, data = wine3))
Analysis of Variance Table

Response: y
          Df  Sum Sq Mean Sq F value    Pr(>F)    
group      3   7.344  2.4479  1.0731    0.3818    
subj       7 188.219 26.8884 11.7867 5.026e-06 ***
Residuals 21  47.906  2.2812                      
---
Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

R> library(car)
R> Anova(aov(y ~ subj + group, data = wine3))
Anova Table (Type II tests)

Response: y
           Sum Sq Df F value    Pr(>F)    
subj      188.219  7 11.7867 5.026e-06 ***
group       7.344  3  1.0731    0.3818    
Residuals  47.906 21                      
---
Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Comparing intraclass correlation to Pearson correlation coefficient

Comparing intraclass correlation to Pearson correlation coefficient (with R)

In the second example (two raters, slope != 1), Pearson correlation is 1 but ICC is not large.

Is there an example where intra-class correlation ICC is large but Pearson correlation is small from two raters? One example where this can occur is when the raters are measuring the same quantity, but with different units or scales. In this case, the ICC can indicate a high level of agreement between the raters, while the Pearson correlation may not show a strong relationship between the two sets of measurements.

Cluster randomized trials

Fleiss Kappa statistic

Cohen's Kappa statistic

ICC and Kappa totally disagree

Concordance correlation coefficient/CCC

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concordance_correlation_coefficient
    [math]\displaystyle{ \rho_c = \frac{2\rho\sigma_x\sigma_y}{\sigma_x^2 + \sigma_y^2 + (\mu_x - \mu_y)^2}, }[/math]
    where [math]\displaystyle{ \mu_x }[/math] and [math]\displaystyle{ \mu_y }[/math] are the means for the two variables and [math]\displaystyle{ \sigma^2_x }[/math] and [math]\displaystyle{ \sigma^2_y }[/math] are the corresponding variances. [math]\displaystyle{ \rho }[/math] is the correlation coefficient between the two variables.
  • The CCC is used to evaluate the degree of agreement between two sets of measurements or observations, and it provides a value between -1 and 1.
  • The CCC is an extension of the Pearson correlation coefficient, but it takes into account not only the magnitude of the correlation between two variables but also the difference in their means. This makes it a more robust measure of agreement, especially when dealing with data that have a wide range of values or when there is a bias between the two sets of measurements.
  • The CCC ranges from -1 to 1, where values close to 1 indicate strong agreement between the two sets of measurements, values close to 0 indicate no agreement, and values close to -1 indicate strong disagreement or inverse agreement. A CCC of 0.8 or higher is generally considered to indicate good agreement, while a value of less than 0.5 indicates poor agreement.
  • Concordance Correlation Coefficient R-blogger
  • How to compare concordance correlation coefficient to Pearson's r?
  • R functions: DescTools::CCC(), yardstick::ccc(), epiR::epi.ccc()

ICC vs CCC

  • Methods for evaluating the agreement between diagnostic tests Morgan 2015
    • At the heart of this issue is quantifying the agreement between the results of two (or more) tests. That is, the two tests should yield similar results when applied to the same subject.
    • While the paired t test could then be used to test whether the mean difference significantly differs from zero, this test cannot provide evidence that there is agreement. That is, rejecting the null hypothesis of no difference between the two sets of test results would only allow us to say that the tests do not agree; failing to reject this hypothesis would not constitute proof that the tests agree.
    • M vs A plot in gene expression is an application of Bland–Altman plot. M = log2(R/G), the intensity log ratio and A is mean log intensity. The M value provides a measure of the fold change in expression between the two samples. By taking the log of the ratio of expression values, the M value is transformed into a scale that is symmetrical around zero. The log transformation of the ratio of expression values also helps to stabilize the variance of the data, making it easier to identify differentially expressed genes or transcripts between the two samples. The MA plot uses the average log expression (A value) in the x-axis because it provides a measure of the overall expression level of each gene or transcript, which is useful for identifying systematic biases in the data. See figures on SciencDirect. At each point on MA plot, M value is adjusted by subtracting the estimated bias (the height of the loess curve) at the same A value, that is, log2(R/G)=log2(R/G)−c(A), where c(A) is the lowess fit to MA plot.
  • A simple example (Y=X+3 from wikipedia) 
    df <- 1:5; df <- cbind(df, df+3)

cor(df[, 1], df[, 2])
# 1

library(irr)
icc(df, model="twoway", type = "agreement")  
#  Single Score Intraclass Correlation
#
#    Model: twoway 
#    Type : agreement 
# 
#    Subjects = 5 
#      Raters = 2 
#    ICC(A,1) = 0.357

library(DescTools)
CCC(df[,1], df[, 2])
# $rho.c
#         est     lwr.ci    upr.ci
# 1 0.3076923 -0.0584809 0.6008884
# 
# $s.shift
# [1] 1
# 
# $l.shift
# [1] 2.12132
# 
# $C.b
# [1] 0.3076923

# Note that the sample variance/covariance estimators, we use "n" as denominator
2*cov(df[, 1], df[, 2]) / (sd(df[,1])^2 + sd(df[,2])^2 + (mean(df[,1] - mean(df[,2]))^2))
# [1] 0.3571429
2*cov(df[, 1], df[, 2])*4/5 / (var(df[,1])*4/5 + var(df[,2])*4/5 + (mean(df[,1] - mean(df[,2]))^2))
[1] 0.3076923

# And if we use one-way ANOVA
icc(df, model="oneway")  
#  Single Score Intraclass Correlation
# 
#    Model: oneway 
#    Type : consistency 
#
#   Subjects = 5 
#     Raters = 2 
#     ICC(1) = 0.0526

# Ronald Fisher
n <- 5
xbar <- mean(df)
s2 <- (sum((df[,1]-xbar)^2) + sum((df[,2]-xbar)^2))/ (2*n)
sum( (df[,1]-xbar)*(df[,2]-xbar) ) / (n*s2)
# [1] -0.05882353
Retrieved from "https://wiki.taichimd.us/index.php?title=ICC&oldid=36626"