That's perfect. Thanks!

On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 12:45 AM, Pascal Oettli <kri...@ymail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Using a web search engine, I found, for example:
>
> http://www.unt.edu/benchmarks/archives/2003/february03/rss.htm
>
> http://sas-and-r.blogspot.jp/2012_09_01_archive.html
>
> Hope this helps,
> Pascal
>
>
>
> 2013/9/5 Dustin Fife <df...@ou.edu>
>
>> I've been working on a way to visualize a spearman correlation. That
>> seemed
>> pretty simple:
>>
>> #### generate skewed data
>> x = rnorm(100)^2
>> y = .6*x + rnorm(100, 0, sqrt(1-.6^2))
>>
>> plot(x,y)  #### regular plot
>>
>> plot(rank(x),rank(y), xaxt="n", yaxt="n")  ### spearman-like plot
>>
>> #### make axis labels
>> axis(1, at=quantile(rank(x)), labels=round(quantile(x), digits=2))
>> axis(2, at=quantile(rank(y)), labels=round(quantile(y), digits=2))
>>
>> However, transforming the data into ranks eliminates any information we
>> have about the distributions of the data. My solution to this problem is
>> to
>> plot the densities outside the x/y axis with the mode of the distribution
>> pointing away from the plot. I've seen plots like this in textbooks, but
>> can't think of a way to do this in R.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
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