Functions to generate plots and tables for comparing independently-sampled
populations. Companion package to "A Primer on Visualizations for Comparing
Populations, Including the Issue of Overlapping Confidence Intervals"
(Wright, Klein, and Wieczorek, 2017,
The American Statistician, in press).
See the Intro vignette (html) for an overview and examples:
vignette("intro", package = "RankingProject").
See the Primer vignette (pdf)
for code which replicates the main figures from the article:
vignette("primer", package = "RankingProject").
The "comparison" plots are based on figures and S code from
Almond et al. (2000).
The present package does not contain a direct modification of their S code,
but draws inspiration from it. Their script was originally hosted at
Statlib at http://stat.cmu.edu/S/comprB and may still be found at
Statlib mirrors such as
http://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/math/statlib/S/comprB.
The code for the "columns" plots is directly based on R's
stats::heatmap()
function, with minor modifications to remove dendograms and allow the heatmap
to be placed inside a larger layout().
Almond, R.G., Lewis, C., Tukey, J.W., and Yan, D. (2000). "Displays for Comparing a Given State to Many Others," The American Statistician, vol. 54, no. 2, 89-93.
Wright, T., Klein, M., and Wieczorek, J. (2017). "A Primer on Visualizations for Comparing Populations, Including the Issue of Overlapping Confidence Intervals," The American Statistician, in press.