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clusterfly (version 0.4)

ellipse: Create multivariate ellipse. Randomly sample points from a probability contour of a multivariate normal.

Description

There are two ways to use this function. You can either supply a data set for which a multivariate normal ellipse will be drawn or you can supply the mean vector, covariance matrix and number of dimensions yourself.

Usage

ellipse(data, npoints = 1000, cl = 0.95, mean = colMeans(data), cov = var(data), df = nrow(data))

Arguments

data
data frame or matrix
npoints
number of points to sample
cl
proportion of density contained within ellipse
mean
mean vector
cov
variance-covariance matrix
df
degrees of freedom used for calculating F statistic