Message-ID: <loom.20060202T155042-992@post.gmane.org>
Date: 2006-02-02T14:53:20Z
From: Ben Bolker
Subject: is there a way to visualize 3D normal distributions?
Duncan Murdoch <murdoch <at> stats.uwo.ca> writes:
>
> On 2/2/2006 3:39 AM, Michael wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > How do I visualize a contour of a tri-variate normal distribution?
> >
> > I just like to see the ellipsoid very much. I hope there is a easy way or
> > existing method in R.
>
> The misc3d package includes a function for 3d contour plots; that should
> do what you want.
>
is contour3d really necessary or could you just plot ellipsoids?
(library(rgl); demo(shapes3d)) -- still a little bit of figuring
to do, but this should get you most of the way there.
Ben Bolker