Plotting conditional densities
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Recently I have read a post on Comparing all quantiles of two distributions simultaneously on R-bloggers. In the post author plots two conditional density plots on one graph. I often use such a plot to visualize conditional densities of scores in binary prediction. After several times I had a problem with appropriate scaling of the plot to make both densities always fit into the plotting region I have written a small snippet that handles it.Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.
Here is the code of the function. It scales both x and y axes appropriately:
# class: binary explained variable
# score: score obtained from prediction model
# main, xlab, col, lty, lwd: passed to plot function
# lx, ly: passed to legend function as x and y
cdp <- function(class, score,
main = “Conditional density”, xlab = “score”,
col = c(2, 4), lty = c(1, 1), lwd = c(1, 1),
lx = “topleft”, ly = NULL) {
class <- factor(class)
if (length(levels(class)) != 2) {
stop(“class must have two levels”)
}
if (!is.numeric(score)) {
stop(“score must be numeric”)
}
cscore <- split(score, class)
cdensity <- lapply(cscore, density)
xlim <- range(cdensity[[1]]$x, cdensity[[2]]$x)
ylim <- range(cdensity[[1]]$y, cdensity[[2]]$y)
plot(cdensity[[1]], main = main, xlab = xlab, col = col[1],
lty = lty[1], lwd = lwd[1], xlim = xlim, ylim = ylim)
lines(cdensity[[2]], col = col[2], lty = lty[2], lwd = lwd[2])
legend(lx, ly, names(cdensity),
lty = lty, col = col, lwd = lwd)
}
As an example of its application I compare its results to standard cdplot on a simple classification problem:
data(Participation, package = “Ecdat”)
data.set <- Participation
data.set$age2 <- data.set$age ^ 2
glm.model <- glm(lfp ~ ., data = data.set, family=binomial(link = probit))
par(mfrow = c(1, 2))
cdp(data.set$lfp, predict(glm.model), main = “cdp”)
cdplot(factor(data.set$lfp) ~ predict(glm.model),
main = “cdplot”, xlab = “score”, ylab = “lfp”)
Here is the resulting plot:
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