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A rootogram is a model diagnostic tool that assesses the goodness of fit of a statistical model. The observed values of the response are compared with those expected from the fitted model. For discrete, count responses, the frequency of each count (0, 1, 2, etc) in the observed data and expected from the conditional distribution of the response implied by the model are compared. For continuous variables, the observed and expected frequencies are obtained by grouping the data into bins. The rootogram is drawn using ggplot2::ggplot() graphics. The design closely follows Kleiber & Zeileis (2016).

Usage

# S3 method for rootogram
draw(
  object,
  type = c("hanging", "standing", "suspended"),
  sqrt = TRUE,
  ref_line = TRUE,
  warn_limits = TRUE,
  fitted_colour = "steelblue",
  bar_colour = NA,
  bar_fill = "grey",
  ref_line_colour = "black",
  warn_line_colour = "black",
  ylab = NULL,
  xlab = NULL,
  ...
)

Arguments

object

and R object to plot.

type

character; the type of rootogram to draw.

sqrt

logical; show the observed and fitted frequencies

ref_line

logical; draw a reference line at zero?

warn_limits

logical; draw Tukey's warning limit lines at +/- 1?

fitted_colour, bar_colour, bar_fill, ref_line_colour, warn_line_colour

colours used to draw the respective element of the rootogram.

xlab, ylab

character; labels for the x and y axis of the rootogram. May be missing (NULL), in which case suitable labels will be used. '

...

arguments passed to other methods.

Value

A 'ggplot' object.

References

Kleiber, C., Zeileis, A., (2016) Visualizing Count Data Regressions Using Rootograms. Am. Stat. 70, 296–303. doi:10.1080/00031305.2016.1173590

See also

rootogram() to compute the data for the rootogram.

Examples

load_mgcv()
df <- data_sim("eg1", n = 1000, dist = "poisson", scale = 0.1, seed = 6)

# A poisson example
m <- gam(y ~ s(x0, bs = "cr") + s(x1, bs = "cr") + s(x2, bs = "cr") +
  s(x3, bs = "cr"), family = poisson(), data = df, method = "REML")
rg <- rootogram(m)

# plot the rootogram
draw(rg)


# change the type of rootogram
draw(rg, type = "suspended")