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ellipseLexCA: Confidence ellipses on textual correspondence analysis graphs

Description

Draws confidence ellipses around documents and/or words on a textual CA graph.

Usage

ellipseLexCA(object, selWord="ALL", selDoc="ALL", nbsample=100, level.conf=0.95,
    axes=c(1, 2), ncp=NULL, xlim=NULL, ylim=NULL, title=NULL, col.doc="blue",
    col.word="red", col.doc.ell=col.doc, col.word.ell=col.word, cex=1)

Value

Returns a LexCA-like map representing the selected points and their confidence ellipses

Arguments

object

object of LexCA class

selWord

selected words (indexes or names; by default "ALL"); see the details section

selDoc

selected docs (indexes or names; by default "ALL"); see the details section

nbsample

number of samples drawn to evaluate the stability of the points

level.conf

confidence level used to construct the ellipses (by default 0.95)

axes

length 2 vector specifying the dimensions to plot

ncp

maximum number of dimension to draw (by default NULL and ncp is the number of dimensions from LexCA object)

xlim

range for the plotted 'x' values, defaulting to the range of the finite values of 'x' (by default NULL)

ylim

range for the plotted 'y' values, defaulting to the range of the finite values of 'y' (by default NULL)

title

title of the graph (by default NULL and the title is automatically assigned)

col.doc

color for the documents-points (by default "blue")

col.word

color for words-points (by default "red")

col.doc.ell

color for the ellipses around documents-points (by default the same as col.doc)

col.word.ell

color for the ellipses around words-points (by default the same as col.word)

cex

text and symbol size is scaled by cex, in relation to size 1 (by default 1)

Author

Monica Bécue-Bertaut, Ramón Alvarez-Esteban , Josep-Antón Sánchez-Espigares

Details

The method "multinomial" is used to generate the replicated tables. So, the active lexical table contained in the LexCA object (active table) is taken as a reference.

Then, replicated lexical tables are generated by repeating nbsample times the following process: N (the sum of active table elements) values are drawn from a multinomial distribution with theoretical frequencies equal to the values in the active table cells divided by N. A replicated table is built from each drawing.

The nbsample documents-rows and/or words-columns of the replicated tables are projected as supplementary documents (rows) and/or supplementary words (columns) on the graph computed from the active lexical table. Then, confidence ellipses are drawn around each active element from the nbsample supplementary points.
The replicated samples with empty row-documents and/or word-columns with null frequency are dropped.
If over 10% of the total of replicated samples are dropped, the execution is stopped. Information is given through a stop-message.

The selDoc and selWord arguments allow for selecting the documents and/ or words.
The syntax for these arguments is similar to the one used in plot.LexCA.
However they only concern the active elements and selecting the characteristic words is not allowed.

Some examples follow: selDoc=c(1:5): the documents 1 to 5 are represented.
selDoc=c("doc1","doc5"): documents with labels doc1 or doc5 are represented.
selWord=c("word1","word3"): words with labels word1 or word3 are represented.
selDoc/selWord = "coord 10": the 10 documents/words with the highest coordinates on the 2 chosen axes are selected.
selDoc/selWord="contrib 10": documents/words with a contribution to the inertia of any of both axes over 10% of the axis inertia are selected.
selDoc/selWord="cos2 0.85: the documents/words with cos2 over 0.85 (as summed on the 2 axes) are selected.
selDoc ="meta 3": documents/words with a contribution over 3 times the average document/word contribution on any of both axes are selected.

References

Husson F., Lê S., Pagès J. (2011). Exploratory Multivariate Analysis by Example Using R. Chapman & Hall/CRC. tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1201/b10345").

Lebart, L., Piron, M., & Morineau, A. (2006). Statistique exploratoire multidimensionnelle. (Dunod, Ed.).

Lebart, L., Salem, A., & Berry, L. (1998). Exploring textual data. (Kluwer, Ed.). tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1007/978-94-017-1525-6").

See Also

LexCA, print.LexCA, plot.LexCA, summary.LexCA

Examples

if (FALSE) {
data(open.question)
res.TD<-TextData(open.question, var.text=c(9,10), remov.number=TRUE, Fmin=10, Dmin=10,  
  stop.word.tm=TRUE, context.quali=c("Gender","Age_Group","Education"), 
  context.quanti=c("Age"))
res.LexCA<-LexCA(res.TD, graph=FALSE,ncp=8)
ellipseLexCA(res.LexCA, selWord="meta 1",selDoc=NULL, col.word="brown")
ellipseLexCA(res.LexCA, selWord="contrib 10",selDoc=NULL, col.word="brown")
ellipseLexCA(res.LexCA, selWord=c("work","job","money","comfortable"), selDoc=NULL,
  col.word="brown")
ellipseLexCA(res.LexCA, selWord="cos2 0.2", selDoc=NULL, col.word="brown")
}
if (FALSE) {
data(open.question)
res.TD<-TextData(open.question, var.text=c(9,10), var.agg="Gen_Age", Fmin=10, Dmin=10,
  remov.number=TRUE, stop.word.tm=TRUE)
res.LexCA<-LexCA(res.TD, graph=FALSE)
ellipseLexCA(res.LexCA, selWord=NULL, col.doc="black")
ellipseLexCA(res.LexCA, selWord="meta 3", selDoc=NULL, col.word="brown")
ellipseLexCA(res.LexCA, selWord="contrib 10", selDoc=NULL, col.word="brown")
ellipseLexCA(res.LexCA, selWord=c("work","job","money","comfortable"), selDoc=NULL,
       col.word="brown")
ellipseLexCA(res.LexCA, selWord="cos2 0.2", selDoc=NULL, col.word="brown")    
	}