http://www.stat.wmich.edu/wang/561/egs/profileplot.html might help. Kind regards, Luca
Mr. Luca Meyer www.lucameyer.com 2012/12/12 Shannon, William <[email protected]> > I googled ‘profile plots r’ and came up with lots of links for this in R > that might do what you need**** > > ** ** > > Thank you**** > > ** ** > > Bill Shannon, PhD, MBA**** > > ** ** > > Professor of Biostatistics in Medicine**** > > Washington University School of Medicine **** > > Director, Biostatistical Consulting Center**** > > ** ** > > 314-454-8356/314-704-8725**** > > [email protected]**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* Classification, clustering, and phylogeny estimation [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Art Kendall > *Sent:* Wednesday, December 12, 2012 11:12 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Profile plots**** > > ** ** > > Does any body know if there is free software to do profile plots? > > Profile plots are special parallel coordinate plots used when all of the > variables in the set are measured on the same scale, e.g., dollars, > percents, percentiles, z-scores, T-scores, IQs, extent scales, Likert > scales etc. > They are used to visualize standardized test scores, cluster profiles, > repeated measures (including time series), points along the > electromagnetic spectrum, EKGs, EEGs , ipsative scores, etc. > > They are very much like parallel coordinate plots. They have a set of > parallel axes, *but *all of the scales are anchored at a common center > reference line perpendicular to the set of parallel axes. E.g. 100 for > IQs, 50 for percentiles, zero for standardized variables, neither disagree > or agree for Likert scales, etc. They may have additional reference lines > at other points also, e.g, 0 and 100 for percents or percentiles, -3 -2 -1 > 1 2 3 for standardized scores, 55 70 85 115 130 145 for IQ's, etc. > > **** > > -- **** > > Art Kendall**** > > Social Research Consultants**** > > ---------------------------------------------- CLASS-L list. Instructions: > http://www.classification-society.org/csna/lists.html#class-l **** > ---------------------------------------------- CLASS-L list. > Instructions: > http://www.classification-society.org/csna/lists.html#class-l > ---------------------------------------------- CLASS-L list. Instructions: http://www.classification-society.org/csna/lists.html#class-l
