Add sin and cos terms for harmonic analysis

step_harmonic() creates a specification of a recipe step that will add sin() and cos() terms for harmonic analysis.

step_harmonic(
  recipe,
  ...,
  role = "predictor",
  trained = FALSE,
  frequency = NA_real_,
  cycle_size = NA_real_,
  starting_val = NA_real_,
  keep_original_cols = FALSE,
  columns = NULL,
  skip = FALSE,
  id = rand_id("harmonic")
)

Arguments

recipe: A recipe object. The step will be added to the sequence of operations for this recipe.
...: One or more selector functions to choose variables for this step. See selections() for more details. This will typically be a single variable.
role: For model terms created by this step, what analysis role should they be assigned? By default, the new columns created by this step from the original variables will be used as predictors in a model.
trained: A logical to indicate if the quantities for preprocessing have been estimated.
frequency: A numeric vector with at least one value. The value(s) must be greater than zero and finite.
cycle_size: A numeric vector with at least one value that indicates the size of a single cycle. cycle_size should have the same units as the input variable(s).
starting_val: either NA, numeric, Date or POSIXt value(s) that indicates the reference point for the sin and cos curves for each input variable. If the value is a Date or POISXt the value is converted to numeric using as.numeric(). This parameter may be specified to increase control over the signal phase. If starting_val is not specified the default is 0.
keep_original_cols: A logical to keep the original variables in the output. Defaults to FALSE.
columns: A character string of the selected variable names. This field is a placeholder and will be populated once prep() is used.
skip: A logical. Should the step be skipped when the recipe is baked by bake()? While all operations are baked when prep() is run, some operations may not be able to be conducted on new data (e.g. processing the outcome variable(s)). Care should be taken when using skip = TRUE as it may affect the computations for subsequent operations.
id: A character string that is unique to this step to identify it.

Value

An updated version of recipe with the new step added to the sequence of any existing operations.

Details

This step seeks to describe periodic components of observational data using a combination of sin and cos waves. To do this, each wave of a specified frequency is modeled using one sin and one cos term. The two terms for each frequency can then be used to estimate the amplitude and phase shift of a periodic signal in observational data. The equation relating cos waves of known frequency but unknown phase and amplitude to a sum of sin and cos terms is below:

$$A_j cos(\sigma_j t_i - \Phi_j) = C_j cos(\sigma_j t_i) + S_j sin(\sigma_j t_i)$$

Solving the equation yields $C_j$ and $S_j$. the amplitude can then be obtained with:

$$A_j = \sqrt{C^2_j + S^2_j}$$

And the phase can be obtained with: $$\Phi_j = \arctan{(S_j / C_j)}$$

where:

$\sigma_j = 2 \pi (frequency / cycle\_size))$
$A_j$ is the amplitude of the $j^{th}$ frequency
$\Phi_j$ is the phase of the $j^{th}$ frequency
$C_j$ is the coefficient of the cos term for the $j^{th}$ frequency
$S_j$ is the coefficient of the sin term for the $j^{th}$ frequency

The periodic component is specified by frequency and cycle_size parameters. The cycle size relates the specified frequency to the input column(s) units. There are multiple ways to specify a wave of given frequency, for example, a POSIXct input column given a frequency of 24 and a cycle_size equal to 86400 is equivalent to a frequency of 1.0 with cycle_size equal to 3600.

Tuning Parameters

This step has 1 tuning parameters:

frequency: Harmonic Frequency (type: double, default: NA)

Tidying

When you tidy() this step, a tibble is returned with columns terms, starting_val, cycle_size, frequency, key , and id:

terms: character, the selectors or variables selected
starting_val: numeric, the starting value
cycle_size: numeric, the cycle size
frequency: numeric, the frequency
key: character, key describing the calculation
id: character, id of this step

Case weights

The underlying operation does not allow for case weights.

References

Doran, H. E., & Quilkey, J. J. (1972). Harmonic analysis of seasonal data: some important properties. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 54, volume 4, part 1, 646-651.

Foreman, M. G. G., & Henry, R. F. (1989). The harmonic analysis of tidal model time series. Advances in water resources, 12(3), 109-120.

Examples

library(ggplot2, quietly = TRUE)
library(dplyr)

data(sunspot.year)
sunspots <-
  tibble(
    year = 1700:1988,
    n_sunspot = sunspot.year,
    type = "measured"
  ) |>
  slice(1:75)

# sunspots period is around 11 years, sample spacing is one year
dat <- recipe(n_sunspot ~ year, data = sunspots) |>
  step_harmonic(year, frequency = 1 / 11, cycle_size = 1) |>
  prep() |>
  bake(new_data = NULL)

fit <- lm(n_sunspot ~ year_sin_1 + year_cos_1, data = dat)

preds <- tibble(
  year = sunspots$year,
  n_sunspot = fit$fitted.values,
  type = "predicted"
)

bind_rows(sunspots, preds) |>
  ggplot(aes(x = year, y = n_sunspot, color = type)) +
  geom_line()



# POSIXct example

date_time <-
  as.POSIXct(
    paste0(rep(1959:1997, each = 12), "-", rep(1:12, length(1959:1997)), "-01"),
    tz = "UTC"
  )

carbon_dioxide <- tibble(
  date_time = date_time,
  co2 = as.numeric(co2),
  type = "measured"
)

# yearly co2 fluctuations
dat <-
  recipe(co2 ~ date_time,
    data = carbon_dioxide
  ) |>
  step_mutate(date_time_num = as.numeric(date_time)) |>
  step_ns(date_time_num, deg_free = 3) |>
  step_harmonic(date_time, frequency = 1, cycle_size = 86400 * 365.24) |>
  prep() |>
  bake(new_data = NULL)

fit <- lm(co2 ~ date_time_num_ns_1 + date_time_num_ns_2 +
  date_time_num_ns_3 + date_time_sin_1 +
  date_time_cos_1, data = dat)

preds <- tibble(
  date_time = date_time,
  co2 = fit$fitted.values,
  type = "predicted"
)

bind_rows(carbon_dioxide, preds) |>
  ggplot(aes(x = date_time, y = co2, color = type)) +
  geom_line()