--- title: "The `bridgedist` Basics" author: "Bruce J. Swihart" date: "`r Sys.Date()`" output: rmarkdown::html_vignette: fig_caption: yes vignette: > %\VignetteIndexEntry{The `bridgedist` Basics} %\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown} %\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8} --- ```{r, eval=TRUE} library(bridgedist) ``` Recreate the plot from Wang and Louis (2003) where the Bridge, Normal, and Logistic all have unit variance and mean 0 with ggplot2: ```{r, fig.width=6, fig.cap = "Fig. 1. Probability density functions of the Gaussian, logistic and bridge, for logistic, distributions each with zero mean and unit variance."} library(reshape2) library(ggplot2) xaxis = seq(-4,4,.01) df = data.frame( xaxis, Bridge = dbridge(xaxis, phi=1/sqrt(1+3/pi^2)), Normal = dnorm(xaxis), Logistic = dlogis(xaxis, scale=sqrt(3/pi^2))) melt.df <- melt(df, id.vars = "xaxis") colnames(melt.df) <- c("x", "Distribution", "value") ggplot(melt.df, aes(x, value, color=Distribution)) + geom_line(size=1.05) + ylab("Probability density function") ``` The implication is that a random variable from a Bridge distribution plus random variable from a standard logistic distribution is a logistic random variable with a scale greater than one (1/phi). ```{r, fig.width=6, fig.cap = "Fig. 2. 10000 random variates in each panel. From left to right: the bridge distribution, the logistic with scale=1, the sum of the previous two, and the logistic with scale=1/phi. Note how similar the third and fourth panel, the application supporting the theory.", warning=FALSE, message=FALSE} phi <- 0.5 df = data.frame( Bridge = rbridge(1e5, phi=phi), Std_Logistic = rlogis(1e5), BridgePlusStd_Logistic = rbridge(1e5, phi=phi) + rlogis(1e5), Logistic = rlogis(1e5, scale=1/phi) ) melt.df <- melt(df) colnames(melt.df) <- c("Distribution", "value") ggplot(melt.df, aes(value)) + facet_grid(.~Distribution) + geom_histogram() ```