broman (version 0.59-5)

triplot: Plot Holmans triangle

Description

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

Usage

triplot(labels, ...)

Arguments

labels

Labels for the three corners (lower-right, top, lower-left).

...

Passed to plot.

Value

• The (x,y) coordinates of the points plotted, if any.

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. The triplot function creates an empty triangle for use with the related functions tripoints, trilines, triarrow.

See Also

tripoints, trilines, 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)