Compute and plot the highest density regions (HDRs) of a bivariate pdf. geom_hdr_fun() draws filled regions, and geom_hdr_lines_fun() draws lines outlining the regions. Note, the plotted objects have the probs mapped to the alpha aesthetic by default.

## Usage

stat_hdr_fun(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
geom = "hdr_fun",
position = "identity",
...,
fun,
args = list(),
normalized = TRUE,
probs = c(0.99, 0.95, 0.8, 0.5),
xlim = NULL,
ylim = NULL,
res = 100,
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

geom_hdr_fun(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "hdr_fun",
position = "identity",
...,
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

stat_hdr_lines_fun(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
geom = "hdr_lines_fun",
position = "identity",
...,
fun,
args = list(),
normalized = TRUE,
probs = c(0.99, 0.95, 0.8, 0.5),
xlim = NULL,
ylim = NULL,
res = 100,
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

geom_hdr_lines_fun(
mapping = NULL,
data = NULL,
stat = "hdr_lines_fun",
position = "identity",
...,
na.rm = FALSE,
show.legend = NA,
inherit.aes = TRUE
)

## Arguments

mapping

Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes() or aes_(). If specified and inherit.aes = TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.

data

The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:

If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the call to ggplot().

A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify() for which variables will be created.

A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data. A function can be created from a formula (e.g. ~ head(.x, 10)).

geom

The geometric object to use display the data

position

Position adjustment, either as a string, or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.

...

Other arguments passed on to layer(). These are often aesthetics, used to set an aesthetic to a fixed value, like colour = "red" or size = 3. They may also be parameters to the paired geom/stat.

fun

A function, the joint probability density function, must be vectorized in its first two arguments; see examples.

args

List of additional arguments passed on to the function fun as a named list.

normalized

Is the function normalized (a proper PDF)? If no, set to FALSE.

probs

Probabilities to compute highest density regions for.

xlim, ylim

Optionally, restrict the support of the pdf (fun) to this range.

res

Resolution of grid fun is evaluated on.

na.rm

If FALSE, the default, missing values are removed with a warning. If TRUE, missing values are silently removed.

show.legend

logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes. It can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.

inherit.aes

If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them. This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and shouldn't inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders().

stat

The statistical transformation to use on the data for this layer, as a string.

## Aesthetics

geom_hdr_fun understands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):

• x

• y

• alpha

• color

• fill

• group

• linetype

• size

• subgroup

geom_hdr_fun_lines understands the following aesthetics (required aesthetics are in bold):

• x

• y

• alpha

• color

• group

• linetype

• size

• subgroup

## Computed variables

probs

The probability associated with the highest density region, specified by probs.

## Examples


f <- function(x, y) dexp(x) * dexp(y)
ggplot() +
geom_hdr_fun(fun = f, xlim = c(0, 10), ylim = c(0, 10))

# the hdr of a custom parametric model

# generate example data
n <- 1000
th_true <- c(3, 8)

rdata <- function(n, th) {
gen_single_obs <- function(th) {
rchisq(2, df = th) # can be anything
}
df <- replicate(n, gen_single_obs(th))
setNames(as.data.frame(t(df)), c("x", "y"))
}
data <- rdata(n, th_true)

# estimate unknown parameters via maximum likelihood
likelihood <- function(th) {
th <- abs(th) # hack to enforce parameter space boundary
log_f <- function(v) {
x <- v[1]; y <- v[2]
dchisq(x, df = th[1], log = TRUE) + dchisq(y, df = th[2], log = TRUE)
}
sum(apply(data, 1, log_f))
}
(th_hat <- optim(c(1, 1), likelihood, control = list(fnscale = -1))\$par)
#> [1] 2.932804 8.003303

# plot f for the give model
f <- function(x, y, th) dchisq(x, df = th[1]) * dchisq(y, df = th[2])

ggplot(data, aes(x, y)) +
geom_hdr_fun(fun = f, args = list(th = th_hat)) +
geom_point(size = .25, color = "red")

ggplot(data, aes(x, y)) +
geom_hdr_fun(fun = f, args = list(th = th_hat)) +
geom_point(size = .25, color = "red") +
xlim(0, 40) + ylim(c(0, 40))