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Create latent profile plots

Source: R/plot-profiles.R
plot_profiles.Rd

Creates a profile plot (ribbon plot) according to best practices, focusing on the visualization of classification uncertainty by showing:

  1. Bars reflecting a confidence interval for the class centroids

  2. Boxes reflecting the standard deviations within each class; a box encompasses +/- 64 percent of the observations in a normal distribution

  3. Raw data, whose transparency is weighted by the posterior class probability, such that each observation is most clearly visible for the class it is most likely to be a member of.

Usage

plot_profiles(
  x,
  variables = NULL,
  ci = 0.95,
  sd = TRUE,
  add_line = FALSE,
  rawdata = TRUE,
  bw = FALSE,
  alpha_range = c(0, 0.1),
  ...
)

# Default S3 method
plot_profiles(
  x,
  variables = NULL,
  ci = 0.95,
  sd = TRUE,
  add_line = FALSE,
  rawdata = TRUE,
  bw = FALSE,
  alpha_range = c(0, 0.1),
  ...
)

Arguments

x

An object containing the results of a mixture model analysis.

variables

A character vectors with the names of the variables to be plotted (optional).

ci

Numeric. What confidence interval should the error bars span? Defaults to a 95 percent confidence interval. Set to NULL to remove error bars.

sd

Logical. Whether to display a box encompassing +/- 1SD Defaults to TRUE.

add_line

Logical. Whether to display a line, connecting cluster centroids belonging to the same latent class. Defaults to FALSE, as it is not recommended to imply connectivity between the different variables on the X-axis.

rawdata

Should raw data be plotted in the background? Setting this to TRUE might result in long plotting times.

bw

Logical. Should the plot be black and white (for print), or color?

alpha_range

The minimum and maximum values of alpha (transparency) for the raw data. Minimum should be 0; lower maximum values of alpha can help reduce overplotting.

...

Arguments passed to and from other functions.

Value

An object of class 'ggplot'.

Author

Caspar J. van Lissa

Examples

df_plot <- data.frame(Variable = "x1",
Class = "class1",
Classes = 1,
Model = "equal var 1",
Value = 3.48571428571429,
se = 0.426092805342181,
Value.Variances = 3.81265306156537,
se.Variances = 1.17660769119959)
plot_profiles(list(df_plot = df_plot, df_raw = NULL),
ci = NULL, sd = FALSE, add_line = FALSE,
rawdata = FALSE, bw = FALSE)