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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