ellipse3d: Make an ellipsoid

In rgl: 3D Visualization Using OpenGL

Description

A generic function and several methods returning an ellipsoid or other outline of a confidence region for three parameters.

Usage

ellipse3d(x, ...)
## Default S3 method:
ellipse3d(x, scale = c(1, 1, 1), centre = c(0, 0, 0), level = 0.95, 
	t = sqrt(qchisq(level, 3)), which = 1:3, subdivide = 3, smooth = TRUE, ...)
## S3 method for class 'lm'
ellipse3d(x, which = 1:3, level = 0.95, t = sqrt(3 * qf(level, 
                                                3, x$df.residual)), ...)     
## S3 method for class 'glm'
ellipse3d(x, which = 1:3, level = 0.95, t, dispersion, ...) 
## S3 method for class 'nls'
ellipse3d(x, which = 1:3, level = 0.95, t = sqrt(3 * qf(level, 
                                                3, s$df[2])), ...) 

Arguments

x	An object. In the default method the parameter x should be a square positive definite matrix at least 3x3 in size. It will be treated as the correlation or covariance of a multivariate normal distribution.
...	Additional parameters to pass to the default method or to qmesh3d.
scale	If x is a correlation matrix, then the standard deviations of each parameter can be given in the scale parameter. This defaults to c(1, 1, 1), so no rescaling will be done.
centre	The centre of the ellipse will be at this position.
level	The confidence level of a simultaneous confidence region. The default is 0.95, for a 95% region. This is used to control the size of the ellipsoid.
t	The size of the ellipse may also be controlled by specifying the value of a t-statistic on its boundary. This defaults to the appropriate value for the confidence region.
which	This parameter selects which variables from the object will be plotted. The default is the first 3.
subdivide	This controls the number of subdivisions (see subdivision3d) used in constructing the ellipsoid. Higher numbers give a smoother shape.
smooth	If TRUE, smooth interpolation of normals is used; if FALSE, a faceted ellipsoid will be displayed.
dispersion	The value of dispersion to use. If specified, it is treated as fixed, and chi-square limits for t are used. If missing, it is taken from summary(x).

Value

A mesh3d object representing the ellipsoid.

Examples

# Plot a random sample and an ellipsoid of concentration corresponding to a 95% 
# probability region for a
# trivariate normal distribution with mean 0, unit variances and 
# correlation 0.8.
if (requireNamespace("MASS")) {
  Sigma <- matrix(c(10, 3, 0, 3, 2, 0, 0, 0, 1), 3, 3)
  Mean <- 1:3
  x <- MASS::mvrnorm(1000, Mean, Sigma)
  
  open3d()
  
  plot3d(x, box = FALSE)
  
  plot3d( ellipse3d(Sigma, centre = Mean), col = "green", alpha = 0.5, add = TRUE)
}  

# Plot the estimate and joint 90% confidence region for the displacement and cylinder
# count linear coefficients in the mtcars dataset

data(mtcars)
fit <- lm(mpg ~ disp + cyl , mtcars)

open3d()
plot3d(ellipse3d(fit, level = 0.90), col = "blue", alpha = 0.5, aspect = TRUE)

Example output

Warning messages:
1: In rgl.init(initValue, onlyNULL) : RGL: unable to open X11 display
2: 'rgl.init' failed, running with 'rgl.useNULL = TRUE'. 
Loading required namespace: MASS
null 
   2 

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