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earth (version 5.3.4)

plotd: Plot the distribution of predictions for each class

Description

Plot the distribution of the predicted values for each class. Can be used for earth models, but also for models built by lm, glm, lda, etc.

Usage

plotd(object, hist = FALSE, type = NULL, nresponse = NULL, dichot = FALSE,
      trace = FALSE, xlim = NULL, ylim = NULL, jitter = FALSE, main=NULL,
      xlab = "Predicted Value", ylab = if(hist) "Count" else "Density",
      lty = 1, col = c("gray70", 1, "lightblue", "brown", "pink", 2, 3, 4),
      fill = if(hist) col[1] else 0,
      breaks = "Sturges", labels = FALSE,
      kernel = "gaussian", adjust = 1, zero.line = FALSE,
      legend = TRUE, legend.names = NULL, legend.pos = NULL,
      cex.legend = .8, legend.bg = "white", legend.extra = FALSE,
      vline.col = 0, vline.thresh = .5, vline.lty = 1, vline.lwd = 1,
      err.thresh = vline.thresh, err.col = 0, err.border = 0, err.lwd = 1,
      xaxt = "s", yaxt = "s", xaxis.cex = 1, sd.thresh = 0.01, ...)

Arguments

To start off, look at the arguments object, hist, type.

For predict methods with multiple column responses, see the nresponse argument.

For factor responses with more than two levels, see the dichot argument.

object

Model object. Typically a model which predicts a class or a class discriminant.

hist

FALSE (default) to call density internally.
TRUE to call hist internally.

type

Type parameter passed to predict. For allowed values see the predict method for your object (such as predict.earth). By default, plotd tries to automatically select a suitable value for the model in question. (This is "response" for all objects except rpart models, where "vector" is used. The choices will often be inappropriate.) Typically you would set hist=TRUE when type="class".

nresponse

Which column to use when predict returns multiple columns. This can be a column index or column name (which may be abbreviated, partial matching is used). The default is NULL, meaning use all columns of the predicted response.

dichot

Dichotimise the predicted response. This argument is ignored except for models where the observed response is a factor with more than two levels and the predicted response is a numeric vector. The default FALSE separates the response into a group for each factor. With dichot=TRUE the response is separated into just two groups: the first level of the factor versus the remaining levels.

trace

Default FALSE. Use TRUE or 1 to trace plotd --- useful to see how plotd partitions the predicted response into classes. Use 2 for more details.

xlim

Limits of the x axis. The default NULL means determine these limits automatically, else specify c(xmin,xmax).

ylim

Limits of the y axis. The default NULL means determine these limits automatically, else specify c(ymin,ymax).

jitter

Jitter the histograms or densities horizontally to minimize overplotting. Default FALSE. Specify TRUE to automatically calculate the jitter, else specify a numeric jitter value.

main

Main title. Values:
"string" string
"" no title
NULL (default) generate a title from the call.

xlab

x axis label. Default is "Predicted Value".

ylab

y axis label. Default is if(hist) "Count" else "Density".

lty

Per class line types for the plotted lines. Default is 1 (which gets recycled for all lines).

col

Per class line colors. The first few colors of the default are intended to be easily distinguishable on both color displays and monochrome printers.

fill

Fill color for the plot for the first class. For hist=FALSE, the default is 0, i.e., no fill. For hist=TRUE, the default is the first element in the col argument.

breaks

Passed to hist. Only used if hist=TRUE. Default is "Sturges". When type="class", setting breaks to a low number can be used to widen the histogram bars

labels

TRUE to draw counts on the hist plot. Only used if hist=TRUE. Default is FALSE.

kernel

Passed to density. Only used if hist=FALSE. Default is "gaussian".

adjust

Passed to density. Only used if hist=FALSE. Default is 1.

zero.line

Passed to plot.density. Only used if hist=FALSE. Default is FALSE.

legend

TRUE (default) to draw a legend, else FALSE.

legend.names

Class names in legend. The default NULL means determine these automatically.

legend.pos

Position of the legend. The default NULL means position the legend automatically, else specify c(x,y).

cex.legend

cex for legend. Default is .8.

legend.bg

bg color for legend. Default is "white".

legend.extra

Show (in the legend) the number of occurrences of each class. Default is FALSE.

vline.thresh

Horizontal position of optional vertical line. Default is 0.5. The vertical line is intended to indicate class separation. If you use this, don't forget to set vline.col.

vline.col

Color of vertical line. Default is 0, meaning no vertical line.

vline.lty

Line type of vertical line. Default is 1.

vline.lwd

Line width of vertical line. Default is 1.

err.thresh

x axis value specifying the error shading threshold. See err.col. Default is vline.thresh.

err.col

Specify up to three colors to shade the "error areas" of the density plot. The default is 0, meaning no error shading. This argument is ignored unless hist=FALSE. If there are more than two classes, err.col uses only the first two. This argument is best explained by running an example:


data(etitanic)
earth.mod <- earth(survived ~ ., data=etitanic)
plotd(earth.mod, vline.col=1, err.col=c(2,3,4))
      

The three areas are (i) the error area to the left of the threshold, (ii) the error area to the right of the threshold, and, (iii) the reducible error area. If less than three values are specified, plotd re-uses values in a sensible manner. Use values of 0 to skip areas. Disjoint regions are not handled well by the current implementation.

err.border

Borders around the error shading. Default is 0, meaning no borders, else specify up to three colors.

err.lwd

Line widths of borders of the error shading. Default is 1, else specify up to three line widths.

xaxt

Default is "s". Use xaxt="n" for no x axis.

yaxt

Default is "s". Use yaxt="n" for no y axis.

xaxis.cex

Only used if hist=TRUE and type="class". Specify size of class labels drawn on the x axis. Default is 1.

sd.thresh

Minimum acceptable standard deviation for a density. Default is 0.01. Densities with a standard deviation less than sd.thresh will not be plotted (a warning will be issued and the legend will say "not plotted").

...

Extra arguments passed to the predict method for the object.

See Also

Examples

Run this code
if (require(earth)) {
    old.par <- par(no.readonly=TRUE);
    par(mfrow=c(2,2), mar=c(4, 3, 1.7, 0.5), mgp=c(1.6, 0.6, 0), cex = 0.8)
    data(etitanic)
    mod <- earth(survived ~ ., data=etitanic, degree=2, glm=list(family=binomial))

    plotd(mod)

    plotd(mod, hist=TRUE, legend.pos=c(.25,220))

    plotd(mod, hist=TRUE, type="class", labels=TRUE, xlab="", xaxis.cex=.8)

    par(old.par)
}

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