Plotting an interaction with error bars
Thank you Jim. brkdn.plot() seems to be just the function I need. Still, I wonder if there are lists of labels of the different measures of central tendency (mct argument) and measures of dispersion (md)? dror -----------------------------
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Jim Lemon <jim at bitwrit.com.au> wrote:
On 11/03/2009 10:15 PM, Dror D Lev wrote:
Hello.
I need to plot a two-way interaction (5 levels X 3) with error bars.
The x.factor will be the five-levels var and the trace.factor will be
the three level var.
I was able to find functions that draw error bars, but still couldn't
find a way to draw an interaction plot that looks like what is common
in psychological (and related) journals: the lines (three in my need)
are plotted in parallel and to avoid overlapping of the error bars a
small jitter is added.
I was able to make plotmeans() {from gplots} draw the interaction but
with the lines plotted side by side (not parallel), resulting in three
panes of one line each. When I tried manually super-imposing (looping
a draw of one line for each level in the trace.factor) I got the
overall look, but the error bars overlap and are hard to distinguish.
Another attempt I made was with ci.plot() {from pda}. Inputting an
aov() model resulted in a perfect plot of interaction but which is
very limited to handle - I was unable to add a legend, change symbols
etc.
Does anybody knows if there is a way to manipulate either of the above
functions more then what I was able to?
Is there another function to draw interaction plots with error bars?
Hi Dror, I think you want to offset the points in a group along the x axis so that the points and error bars don't overlap. Try introducing an x offset of maybe 0.1 in your try with plotmeans. To see an example of what this looks like and how it is done, have a look at brkdn.plot in the plotrix package. Jim