broman (version 0.59-5)

trilines: Plot lines within a Holmans triangle

Description

Plot lines within a Holmans triangle (an equilateral triangle used to depict trinomial distributions).

Usage

trilines(x, ...)

Arguments

x

A matrix with three rows, each column being a trinomial distribution. Lines between these points are plotted.

...

Passed to lines.

Value

• The (x,y) coordinates of the endpoints of the lines plotted.

Details

Plot of an equilateral triangle, in order to depict trinomial distributions. A trinomial distribution (that is, a trio of non-negative numbers that add to 1) is equated to a point in the triangle through the distances to the three sides. This makes use of the fact that for any point in an equilateral triangle, the sum of the distances to the three sides is constant. First use triplot to first plot the equilateral triangle.

See Also

triplot, tripoints, triarrow

Examples

triplot()
x <- cbind(c(0.9, 0.05, 0.05), c(0.8, 0.1, 0.1), c(0.1, 0.9, 0), c(0, 0.9, 0.1))
tripoints(x, lwd=2, col=c("black","blue","red","green"), pch=16)
trilines(x, lwd=2, col="orange")
y <- cbind(c(0.05, 0.05, 0.9), c(0.25, 0.25, 0.5))
triarrow(y, col="blue", lwd=2, len=0.1)