plot.sae: Plot method for objects of class sae.
In hbsae: Hierarchical Bayesian Small Area Estimation

plot.sae

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Plot method for objects of class sae.

Description

This function plots small area estimates with error bars. Multiple sets of estimates can be compared. The default ordering of the estimates is by their area population sizes. This method uses a plot function that is adapted from function coefplot.default of package arm.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'sae'
plot(
  ...,
  n.se = 1,
  est.names,
  sort.by = NULL,
  decreasing = FALSE,
  index = NULL,
  maxrows = 50L,
  maxcols = 6L,
  type = "sae",
  offset = 0.1,
  cex.var = 0.8,
  mar = c(0.1, 2.1, 5.1, 0.1)
)

Arguments

`...`	`sae` objects, `dc_summary` objects (output by the `summary` method for simulation objects of package mcmcsae), or lists. The first object must be a `sae` object. In case of a list the components used are those with name `est` for point estimates, `se` for standard error based intervals or `lower` and `upper` for custom intervals. Instead of `dc_summary` objects matrix objects are also supported as long as they contain columns named "Mean" and "SD" as do `dc_summary` objects. Named parameters of other types that do not match any other argument names are passed to lower-level plot functions.
`n.se`	number of standard errors below and above the point estimates to use for error bars. By default equal to 1. This only refers to the objects of class `dc_summary` and `sae`.
`est.names`	labels to use in the legend for the components of the `...` argument
`sort.by`	vector by which to sort the coefficients, referring to the first object passed.
`decreasing`	if `TRUE`, sort in decreasing order (default).
`index`	vector of names or indices of the selected areas to be plotted.
`maxrows`	maximum number of rows in a column.
`maxcols`	maximum number of columns of estimates on a page.
`type`	"sae" for small area estimates (default), "coef" for coefficients, "raneff" for random effects.
`offset`	space used between plots of multiple estimates for the same area.
`cex.var`	the fontsize of the variable names, default=0.8.
`mar`	a numerical vector of the form c(bottom, left, top, right) which gives the number of lines of margin to be specified on the four sides of the plot.