# introduction

dbMC is a package for making inference about low-rank matrix completion using de-biased estimator. It comes with two functions:

• It provides a de-biased estimator for low-rank matrix completion from Chen et al (2019). This is the function 'dbmc()'.

• The other function is to compute the confidence intervals for an entry of interest for low-rank matrix completion using the de-biased estimator.

library(dbMC)
# simulated data
require(softImpute)
#> Loaded softImpute 1.4-1
n = 100
p = 100
J = 2  # the true low-rank
np = n*p
sig2 = 1
missfrac = 0.5
# xtrue is the underlying matrix that we do not know and want to recover it
xtrue = matrix(rnorm(n*J),n,J)%*%matrix(rnorm(J*p),J,p)
# generating missing entries locations
imiss = sample(np,np*missfrac,replace=FALSE)
# xna is the observed matrix with missing entries
xna = xtrue + matrix(rnorm(np, sd = sig2),nr = n,nc = p)
xna[imiss] = NA
lamda = 2.5*sig2*sqrt(n*p)

# note that we only have xna as our initial data
# first, fit a softImpute method
fit1 = softImpute(xna, type = 'als')
# complete the matrix by a softImpute method
ximp = complete(xna,fit1)
mean((ximp - xtrue)^2);rankMatrix(ximp,.1)[1]
#> [1] 0.5562762
#> [1] 7
# now, de-biased the softImpute method
x.db = dbmc(x = xna,
ximp = ximp,
entries_miss = imiss,
est_rank = 2)
# smaller mse with de-biased estimator
mean((x.db - xtrue)^2);rankMatrix(x.db,.1)[1]
#> [1] 0.09725576
#> [1] 2

# confidence intervals
CI_mc(i=1,j=2,alpha = 0.05,X.db = x.db,missfrac = 0.5,est_rank = 2,sigma2 = 1)
#> $CI #> [1] 1.684703 2.704853 #> #>$(i,j)
#> [1] 1 2
#>
#> \$v.ij
#> [1] 0.06772855
# true value
xtrue[1,2]
#> [1] 0.2230841