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stat_central_tendency

Add Central Tendency Measures to a GGPLot

Description

Add central tendency measures (mean, median, mode) to density and histogram plots created using ggplots.

Note that, normally, the mode is used for categorical data where we wish to know which is the most common category. Therefore, we can have have two or more values that share the highest frequency. This might be problematic for continuous variable.

For continuous variable, we can consider using mean or median as the measures of the central tendency.

Usage

stat_central_tendency(
  mapping = NULL,
  data = NULL,
  geom = c("line", "point"),
  position = "identity",
  na.rm = FALSE,
  show.legend = NA,
  inherit.aes = TRUE,
  type = c("mean", "median", "mode"),
  ...
)

Arguments

`mapping`	Set of aesthetic mappings created by `aes()` or `aes_()`. If specified and `inherit.aes = TRUE` (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of the plot. You must supply `mapping` if there is no plot mapping.
`data`	The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options: If `NULL`, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the call to `ggplot()`. A `data.frame`, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be fortified to produce a data frame. See `fortify()` for which variables will be created. A `function` will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return value must be a `data.frame`, and will be used as the layer data. A `function` can be created from a `formula` (e.g. `~ head(.x, 10)`).
`geom`	The geometric object to use display the data
`position`	Position adjustment, either as a string, or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.
`na.rm`	If FALSE (the default), removes missing values with a warning. If TRUE silently removes missing values.
`show.legend`	logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? `NA`, the default, includes if any aesthetics are mapped. `FALSE` never includes, and `TRUE` always includes. It can also be a named logical vector to finely select the aesthetics to display.
`inherit.aes`	If `FALSE`, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them. This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and shouldn't inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. `borders()`.
`type`	the type of central tendency measure to be used. Possible values include: `"mean", "median", "mode"`.
`...`	other arguments to pass to `geom_line`.

Examples

# Simple density plot
data("mtcars")
ggdensity(mtcars, x = "mpg", fill = "red") +
  scale_x_continuous(limits = c(-1, 50)) +
  stat_central_tendency(type = "mean", linetype = "dashed")

# Color by groups
data(iris)
ggdensity(iris, "Sepal.Length", color = "Species") +
  stat_central_tendency(aes(color = Species), type = "median", linetype = 2)

# Use geom = "point" for central tendency
data(iris)
ggdensity(iris, "Sepal.Length", color = "Species") +
  stat_central_tendency(
     aes(color = Species), type = "median",
     geom = "point", size = 4
     )

# Facet
ggdensity(iris, "Sepal.Length", facet.by = "Species") +
  stat_central_tendency(type = "mean", color = "red", linetype = 2) +
  stat_central_tendency(type = "median", color = "blue", linetype = 2)

ggpubr

'ggplot2' Based Publication Ready Plots

v0.4.0

GPL-2

Authors

Alboukadel Kassambara [aut, cre]

Initial release

2020-06-27

stat_central_tendency

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