dotwhisker (version 0.2.0.5)

by_2sd: Rescale regression results by multiplying by 2 standard deviations

Description

by_2sd rescales regression results to facilitate making dot-and-whisker plots using dwplot.

Usage

by_2sd(df, dataset)

Arguments

df

A data.frame including the variables term (names of independent variables), estimate (corresponding coefficient estimates), std.error (corresponding standard errors), and optionally model (when multiple models are desired on a single plot) such as generated those by tidy.

dataset

The data analyzed in the models whose results are recorded in df

Value

A tidy data.frame

Details

by_2sd multiplies the results from regression models saved as tidy data frames for predictors that are not binary by twice the standard deviation of these variables in the dataset analyzed. Standardizing in this way yields coefficients that are directly comparable to those for untransformed binary predictors (Gelman 2008) and so facilitates plotting using dwplot.

An alternative available in some circumstances is to pass a model object to standardize before passing the results to tidy and then on to dwplot. The advantage of by_2sd is that it takes as its input is a tidy data.frame and so is not restricted to only those model objects that standardize accepts.

References

Gelman, Andrew. 2008. "Scaling Regression Inputs by Dividing by Two Standard Deviations." Statistics in Medicine, 27:2865-2873.

See Also

standardize

Examples

library(broom)
library(dplyr)

data(mtcars)
m1 <- lm(mpg ~ wt + cyl + disp, data = mtcars)
m1_df <- tidy(m1) %>% by_2sd(mtcars) # create data.frame of rescaled regression results