Add Connected (Random) Line Segments to a Plot

Adds a sample of line segments randomly drawn from the joint distribution of (x,y).

# S3 method for rv
lines(x, y, type = "l", ...)

Arguments

x, y

coordinate vectors of points to join

type

character indicating the type of plotting, currently 'l' and 'p' are the only possibilities

...

further arguments passed to points

Details

The size of the sample (number of segments drawn) is determined by rvpar(line.sample).

lines.rv is implemented as part of points.rv.

See points.rv for details of the parameters.

References

Kerman, J. and Gelman, A. (2007). Manipulating and Summarizing Posterior Simulations Using Random Variable Objects. Statistics and Computing 17:3, 235-244.

See also vignette("rv").

Author

Jouni Kerman jouni@kerman.com

Examples

if (FALSE) {
 
  x <- as.rv(1:10)
  y <- rvnorm(mean=x)
  par(mfrow=c(2,2))
  plot(x, y, type="b", main="Intervals and random lines", rvcol="blue", col="gray")
  plot(x, y, type="l", main="Only random lines", col="gray")
  plot(x, E(y), type="b", main="Means, connected by a constant line", col="gray")
  plot(x, rvmedian(y), type="b", pch=19, main="Median & middle 95 pc CI band", col="darkgray")
  lines(rvquantile(y, 0.025), col="gray")
  lines(rvquantile(y, 1-0.025), col="gray")
  }