Plot Some Posterior Ellipses

In this example we try to create some plots of the multiple samples of the posterior ellipses using ggplot2.

library(SIBER)
library(tidyverse)
library(ellipse)

# load in the included demonstration dataset
data("demo.siber.data")
#
# create the siber object
siber.example <- createSiberObject(demo.siber.data)

# Calculate summary statistics for each group: TA, SEA and SEAc
group.ML <- groupMetricsML(siber.example)

# options for running jags
parms <- list()
parms$n.iter <- 2 * 10^4   # number of iterations to run the model for
parms$n.burnin <- 1 * 10^3 # discard the first set of values
parms$n.thin <- 10     # thin the posterior by this many
parms$n.chains <- 2        # run this many chains

# define the priors
priors <- list()
priors$R <- 1 * diag(2)
priors$k <- 2
priors$tau.mu <- 1.0E-3

# fit the ellipses which uses an Inverse Wishart prior
# on the covariance matrix Sigma, and a vague normal prior on the 
# means. Fitting is via the JAGS method.
ellipses.posterior <- siberMVN(siber.example, parms, priors)

# The posterior estimates of the ellipses for each group can be used to
# calculate the SEA.B for each group.
SEA.B <- siberEllipses(ellipses.posterior)

siberDensityPlot(SEA.B, xticklabels = colnames(group.ML), 
                xlab = c("Community | Group"),
                ylab = expression("Standard Ellipse Area " ('\u2030' ^2) ),
                bty = "L",
                las = 1,
                main = "SIBER ellipses on each group"
                )

Now we want to create some plots of some sample ellipses from these distributions. We need to create a data.frame object of all the ellipses for each group. In this example we simply take the first 10 posterior draws assuming them to be independent of one another, but you could take a random sample if you prefer.

# how many of the posterior draws do you want?
n.posts <- 10

# decide how big an ellipse you want to draw
p.ell <- 0.95

# for a standard ellipse use
# p.ell <- pchisq(1,2)




# a list to store the results
all_ellipses <- list()

# loop over groups
for (i in 1:length(ellipses.posterior)){
  
  # a dummy variable to build in the loop
  ell <- NULL
  post.id <- NULL
  
  for ( j in 1:n.posts){
    
    # covariance matrix
    Sigma  <- matrix(ellipses.posterior[[i]][j,1:4], 2, 2)
    
    # mean
    mu     <- ellipses.posterior[[i]][j,5:6]
    
    # ellipse points
    
    out <- ellipse::ellipse(Sigma, centre = mu , level = p.ell)
    
    
    ell <- rbind(ell, out)
    post.id <- c(post.id, rep(j, nrow(out)))
    
  }
  ell <- as.data.frame(ell)
  ell$rep <- post.id
  all_ellipses[[i]] <- ell
}

ellipse_df <- bind_rows(all_ellipses, .id = "id")


# now we need the group and community names

# extract them from the ellipses.posterior list
group_comm_names <- names(ellipses.posterior)[as.numeric(ellipse_df$id)]

# split them and conver to a matrix, NB byrow = T
split_group_comm <- matrix(unlist(strsplit(group_comm_names, "[.]")),
                           nrow(ellipse_df), 2, byrow = TRUE)

ellipse_df$community <- split_group_comm[,1]
ellipse_df$group     <- split_group_comm[,2]

ellipse_df <- dplyr::rename(ellipse_df, iso1 = x, iso2 = y)

first.plot <- ggplot(data = demo.siber.data, aes(iso1, iso2)) +
  geom_point(aes(color = factor(group):factor(community)), size = 2)+
  ylab(expression(paste(delta^{15}, "N (\u2030)")))+
  xlab(expression(paste(delta^{13}, "C (\u2030)"))) + 
  theme(text = element_text(size=15))
print(first.plot)

second.plot <- first.plot + facet_wrap(~factor(group):factor(community))
print(second.plot)

# rename columns of ellipse_df to match the aesthetics

third.plot <- second.plot + 
  geom_polygon(data = ellipse_df,
              mapping = aes(iso1, iso2,
                             group = rep,
                             color = factor(group):factor(community),
                             fill = NULL),
               fill = NA,
               alpha = 0.2)
print(third.plot)

Plot Some Posterior Ellipses

Andrew L Jackson

2021-04-13