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Confidence Ellipsoid

Ellipsoids are a generalization of ellipses to higher dimensions. Herein, confidence ellipsoids refers as a three-dimensional graphical representations, plotted in the space defined by three variables in a trivariate dataset.

library(magrittr)
library(dplyr)
library(ConfidenceEllipse)
data(glass, package = "ConfidenceEllipse")

Coordinate points

The confidence_ellipsoid function accepts x, y and z input variables and computes the coordinate points of the ellipsoid at the specified confidence level conf_level.

ellipsoid <- glass %>% 
  confidence_ellipsoid(x = SiO2, y = Na2O, z = Fe2O3, conf_level = 0.95)
ellipsoid %>% glimpse()
#> Rows: 2,500
#> Columns: 3
#> $ x <dbl> 66.54472, 66.54472, 66.54472, 66.54472, 66.54472, 66.54472, 66.54472…
#> $ y <dbl> 12.55263, 12.55263, 12.55263, 12.55263, 12.55263, 12.55263, 12.55263…
#> $ z <dbl> 0.6815153, 0.6815153, 0.6815153, 0.6815153, 0.6815153, 0.6815153, 0.…
rgl::setupKnitr(autoprint = TRUE)
rgl::plot3d(
  x = ellipsoid$x, 
  y = ellipsoid$y, 
  z = ellipsoid$z,
  xlab = "SiO2 (wt.%)", 
  ylab = "Na2O (wt.%)", 
  zlab = "Fe2O3 (wt.%)",
  type = "l", 
  radius = .05,
  col = "darkgrey"
  )
rgl::points3d(
  x = glass$SiO2, 
  y = glass$Na2O, 
  z = glass$Fe2O3, 
  col = "darkred",
  size = 5
  )
rgl::view3d(zoom = .8)

Grouping

For grouping trivariate data, the .group_by argument can be used if the data contains an unique grouping variable (.group_by = NULL by default). When a grouping variable is provided, the function will compute the ellipsoid separately for each level of the factor. It’s important to note that the grouping variable should be appropriately coded as a factor before passing it to the .group_by argument.

ellipsoid_grp <- glass %>% 
  confidence_ellipsoid(x = SiO2, y = Na2O, z = Fe2O3, .group_by = glassType, conf_level = 0.95)
ellipsoid_grp %>% glimpse()
#> Rows: 10,000
#> Columns: 4
#> $ x         <dbl> 67.32486, 67.32486, 67.32486, 67.32486, 67.32486, 67.32486, …
#> $ y         <dbl> 14.51964, 14.51964, 14.51964, 14.51964, 14.51964, 14.51964, …
#> $ z         <dbl> 0.5971494, 0.5971494, 0.5971494, 0.5971494, 0.5971494, 0.597…
#> $ glassType <fct> 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, …
rgl::setupKnitr(autoprint = TRUE)
rgl::plot3d(
  x = ellipsoid_grp$x, 
  y = ellipsoid_grp$y, 
  z = ellipsoid_grp$z,
  xlab = "SiO2 (wt.%)", 
  ylab = "Na2O (wt.%)", 
  zlab = "Fe2O3 (wt.%)",
  type = "s", 
  radius = .03,
  col = as.numeric(ellipsoid_grp$glassType)
  )
rgl::points3d(
  x = glass$SiO2, 
  y = glass$Na2O, 
  z = glass$Fe2O3, 
  col = as.numeric(glass$glassType),
  size = 5
  )
rgl::view3d(zoom = .8)

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