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ggstudent - Continuous Confidence Interval Plots using t-Distribution

The R package ggstudent provides an extension to ggplot2 for creating two types of continuous confidence interval plots (Violin CI and Gradient CI plots), typically for the sample mean. These plots contain multiple user-defined confidence areas with varying colours, defined by the underlying t-distribution used to compute standard confidence intervals for the mean of the normal distribution when the variance is unknown.

Two types of plots are available, a gradient plot with rectangular areas, and a violin plot where the shape (horizontal width) is defined by the probability density function of the t-distribution.

See also the related paper and repository

Here is an example:

library("magrittr")
library("dplyr")
library("ggplot2")
library("scales")

ci_levels <- c(0.999, 0.95, 0.9, 0.8, 0.5)
n <- length(ci_levels)
ci_levels <- factor(ci_levels, levels = ci_levels)
PlantGrowth %>% dplyr::group_by(group) %>%
  dplyr::summarise(
    mean = mean(weight),
    df = dplyr::n() - 1,
    se = sd(weight)/sqrt(df + 1)) %>%
 dplyr::full_join(
   data.frame(group =
     rep(levels(PlantGrowth$group), each = n),
     level = ci_levels), by = "group") -> d

p <- ggplot(data = d, aes(group)) +
 geom_student(aes(mean = mean, se = se, df = df,
   level = level, fill = level), draw_lines = c(0.95, 0.5))

g <- scales::seq_gradient_pal("#e5f5f9", "#2ca25f")
p + scale_fill_manual(values = g(seq(0, 1, length = n))) + theme_bw()

See also the R package ggnormalviolin for creating violin plots based on normal distribution.

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