Visualize statistical inference

Visualize the distribution of the simulation-based inferential statistics or the theoretical distribution (or both!).

Learn more in vignette("infer").

visualize(
  data,
  bins = 15,
  method = "simulation",
  dens_color = "black",
  obs_stat = NULL,
  obs_stat_color = "red2",
  pvalue_fill = "pink",
  direction = NULL,
  endpoints = NULL,
  endpoints_color = "mediumaquamarine",
  ci_fill = "turquoise",
  ...
)

visualise(
  data,
  bins = 15,
  method = "simulation",
  dens_color = "black",
  obs_stat = NULL,
  obs_stat_color = "red2",
  pvalue_fill = "pink",
  direction = NULL,
  endpoints = NULL,
  endpoints_color = "mediumaquamarine",
  ci_fill = "turquoise",
  ...
)

Arguments

data	The output from calculate().
bins	The number of bins in the histogram.
method	A string giving the method to display. Options are "simulation", "theoretical", or "both" with "both" corresponding to "simulation" and "theoretical".
dens_color	A character or hex string specifying the color of the theoretical density curve.
obs_stat	A numeric value or 1x1 data frame corresponding to what the observed statistic is. Deprecated (see Details).
obs_stat_color	A character or hex string specifying the color of the observed statistic as a vertical line on the plot. Deprecated (see Details).
pvalue_fill	A character or hex string specifying the color to shade the p-value. In previous versions of the package this was the shade_color argument. Deprecated (see Details).
direction	A string specifying in which direction the shading should occur. Options are "less", "greater", or "two_sided" for p-value. Can also give "left", "right", or "both" for p-value. For confidence intervals, use "between" and give the endpoint values in endpoints. Deprecated (see Details).
endpoints	A 2 element vector or a 1 x 2 data frame containing the lower and upper values to be plotted. Most useful for visualizing conference intervals. Deprecated (see Details).
endpoints_color	A character or hex string specifying the color of the observed statistic as a vertical line on the plot. Deprecated (see Details).
ci_fill	A character or hex string specifying the color to shade the confidence interval. Deprecated (see Details).
...	Other arguments passed along to \ggplot2\ functions.

Value

A ggplot object showing the simulation-based distribution as a histogram or bar graph. Also used to show the theoretical curves.

Details

In order to make visualization workflow more straightforward and explicit visualize() now only should be used to plot statistics directly. That is why arguments not related to this task are deprecated and will be removed in a future release of \infer\.

To add to plot information related to p-value use shade_p_value(). To add to plot information related to confidence interval use shade_confidence_interval().

See also

shade_p_value(), shade_confidence_interval().

Examples

# ...and a null distribution
null_dist <- gss %>%
  # ...we're interested in the number of hours worked per week
  specify(response = hours) %>%
  # hypothesizing that the mean is 40
  hypothesize(null = "point", mu = 40) %>%
  # generating data points for a null distribution
  generate(reps = 10000, type = "bootstrap") %>%
  # finding the null distribution
  calculate(stat = "mean")
#> Warning: Removed 1244 rows containing missing values.

# we can easily plot the null distribution by piping into visualize
null_dist %>%
  visualize()

# we can add layers to the plot as in ggplot, as well... 
# find the point estimate---mean number of hours worked per week
point_estimate <- gss %>%
  specify(response = hours) %>%
  calculate(stat = "mean") %>%
  dplyr::pull()
#> Warning: Removed 1244 rows containing missing values.

# find a confidence interval around the point estimate
ci <- null_dist %>%
  get_confidence_interval(point_estimate = point_estimate,
                          # at the 95% confidence level
                          level = .95,
                          # using the standard error method
                          type = "se")

# display a shading of the area beyond the p-value on the plot
null_dist %>%
  visualize() +
  shade_p_value(obs_stat = point_estimate, direction = "two_sided")

null_dist %>%
  visualize() +
  shade_confidence_interval(ci)

# More in-depth explanation of how to use the infer package
vignette("infer")
#> Warning: vignette ‘infer’ not found