plot.mid.breakdown: Plot MID Breakdowns

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Plot MID Breakdowns

Description

For "mid.breakdown" objects, plot() visualizes the breakdown of a prediction by component functions.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'mid.breakdown'
plot(
  x,
  type = c("waterfall", "barplot", "dotchart"),
  theme = NULL,
  terms = NULL,
  max.nterms = 15L,
  width = NULL,
  vline = TRUE,
  catchall = "(others)",
  label.format = c("%t=%v", "%t:%t"),
  format.args = list(),
  ...
)

Arguments

x	a "mid.breakdown" object to be visualized.
type	the plotting style. One of "waterfall", "barplot" or "dotchart".
theme	a character string or object defining the color theme. See color.theme for details.
terms	an optional character vector specifying which terms to display.
max.nterms	the maximum number of terms to display in the plot. Less important terms will be grouped into a "catchall" category.
width	a numeric value specifying the width of the bars.
vline	logical. If TRUE, a vertical line is drawn at the zero or intercept line.
catchall	a character string for the catchall label.
label.format	a character vector of length one or two specifying the format of the axis labels. The first element is used for main effects (default "%t = %v"), and the second is for interactions (default "%t:%t"). Use "%t" for the term name and "%v" for its value.
format.args	a named list of additional arguments passed to format for formatting the values. Common arguments include digits, nsmall, and big.mark.
...	optional parameters passed on to the graphing function. Possible arguments are "col", "fill", "pch", "cex", "lty", "lwd" and aliases of them.

Details

This is an S3 method for the plot() generic that produces a breakdown plot from a "mid.breakdown" object, visualizing the contribution of each component function to a single prediction.

The type argument controls the visualization style. The default, type = "waterfall", creates a waterfall plot that shows how the prediction builds from the intercept, with each term's contribution sequentially added or subtracted. The type = "barplot" option creates a standard bar plot where the length of each bar represents the magnitude of the term's contribution. The type = "dotchart" option creates a dot plot showing the contribution of each term as a point connected to a zero baseline.

Value

plot.mid.breakdown() produces a plot as a side effect and returns NULL invisibly.

See Also

mid.breakdown, ggmid.mid.breakdown

Examples

data(diamonds, package = "ggplot2")
set.seed(42)
idx <- sample(nrow(diamonds), 1e4)
mid <- interpret(price ~ (carat + cut + color + clarity)^2, diamonds[idx, ])
mbd <- mid.breakdown(mid, diamonds[1L, ])

# Create a waterfall plot
plot(mbd, type = "waterfall")

# Create a bar plot with a different theme
plot(mbd, type = "barplot", theme = "highlight")

# Create a dot chart
plot(mbd, type = "dotchart", size = 1.5)

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