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The last argument of rgb() is the alpha (transparency). # This allowes you to draw a gray rectangle over the plotting area
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# Here's a trick I saw on Stack Exchange (sorry for the poor citation, couldn't find where I saw it originally) Hist(fair_flips, xlim= my_xlim, ylim=my_ylim, main="Histogram of coin flips", xlab=paste("Heads out of", my_size, "flips")) # We'll cover this up in a second, but let's just set up the plotting area "breaks" "counts" "intensities" "density" "mids" "xname" "equidist"įf$counts # These are the frequency counts in the bins (i.e., the y-axis) # We can access the ff and bf objects to get the limits of the plots # First create histogram objects without plottingįf <- hist(fair_flips, breaks=40, plot=F)īf <- hist(biased_flips,breaks=40, plot=F) # Make a histogram with these two distributions superimposed # Now simulate 10000 flips of a coin that only lands on "heads" 30% of the time (i.e., prob=0.3)īiased_flips <- rbinom(n = experiment_num, size = my_size, prob = 0.3) # Let's do 10000 experiments of size=100 flips each using the fair coinįair_flips <- rbinom(n = experiment_num, size = my_size, prob = 0.5) # We can return several experiments at once using n=3, rather than re-running each time # Notice the random variation when we do a few independent experiments
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# Return the number of heads from one experiment fipping a fair coin 10 times # number of successes (e.g., heads) with some random variation. # 'rbinom' simulates a binomial experiment with parameters 'size' and 'prob' as defined above.
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# Let's now simulate flipping one fair and one biased coin, and then make a pretty plot. # Which should match the sum/integral of the PMF/PDF from the lower bound of the support to 3 # Probability of getting 3 or fewer heads (CDF value) # Say we're doing 10 flips with a fair coin-i.e., p(head) = 0.5 To make this more clear, let’s look at an example in which we flip a fair coin 10 times. To connect R’s binomial function arguments to the distribution, it helps to think of it parameterized like this: Pbinom: Gives you the value from the cumulative density function (CDF) Using the binomial distribution as an example, here’s the punch-line:ĭbinom: Gives you the value from the probability mass/density function (PMF/PDF) This really grew into something different than what I set out to post, but I’ve noticed in the site-traffic stats for this blog that people overwhelmingly visit posts about basic R plotting and usage.
#PMF TO CDF HOW TO#
Every time I use R’s distribution functions I have to spend a few minutes reminding myself if it’s d or p that I’m after, so I thought I’d write it down for my brain, and maybe add a little plotting-sugar to sweeten your visit! I’ll also show how to use a package called plotrix to add a table to a plot, and how to use the paste() function to use a variable in an axis label.