You are missing a crucial point. The reals are well ordered; higher dimensions are not. Therefore 2d quantile contours are not unique.
Of course assuming I understand your query correctly. Bert On Wed, Mar 27, 2019, 13:55 Bernard McGarvey <mcgarvey.bern...@comcast.net> wrote: > If I understand correctly the ContourLines function gives you the contour > lines when you put in the data. But before this I need to data to put into > that function. I think this is something like a 2D CDF of the data that > then leads to the 2D quantiles but I am not 100% sure. What I am basically > looking for is the 2D curve that encloses say 95% of the data in a similar > fashion to a 1D quantile where the quantile represents the value that x% of > the data is below. I think what I am looking for is the 2D bivariate > version of the 1D quantile plot (where the quantile value is plotted vs the > % value). > > I hope this makes some sense. > > Bernard McGarvey > > > Director, Fort Myers Beach Lions Foundation, Inc. > > > Retired (Lilly Engineering Fellow). > > > > On March 27, 2019 at 3:57 PM Paul Murrell <p...@stat.auckland.ac.nz> > wrote: > > > > > > > > Are you looking for the contourLines() function ? > > > > Paul > > > > On 28/03/19 8:37 AM, Bernard McGarvey wrote: > > > John, I have attached a pdf of the plot. Hopefully you can read this. > > > > > > If I understand correctly, this plot is basically the 2-D version of > the 1-D quantile plot. > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > Bernard McGarvey > > > > > > > > > Director, Fort Myers Beach Lions Foundation, Inc. > > > > > > > > > Retired (Lilly Engineering Fellow). > > > > > > > > >> On March 27, 2019 at 7:44 AM John Kane <jrkrid...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > > >> > > >> The figure did not get through. Perhaps try a pdf? > > >> > > >> On Tue, 26 Mar 2019 at 13:41, Bernard McGarvey > > >> <mcgarvey.bern...@comcast.net> wrote: > > >>> > > >>> I want to see if I can reproduce the plot below in R. If I > understand it correctly, i takes my bivariate data and creates quantile > density contours. My interpretation of these contours is that they enclose > a certain % of the total data. I am using the bkde2D function in library > KernSmooth which gives density values that can be plotted on a contour plot > but I would like the curves that enclose a given % of the data, if that is > possible > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> Thanks > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> Bernard McGarvey > > >>> > > >>> Director, Fort Myers Beach Lions Foundation, Inc. > > >>> > > >>> Retired (Lilly Engineering Fellow). > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> ______________________________________________ > > >>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > >>> PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > >>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> -- > > >> John Kane > > >> Kingston ON Canada > > >> > > >> ______________________________________________ > > >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > >> PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > -- > > Dr Paul Murrell > > Department of Statistics > > The University of Auckland > > Private Bag 92019 > > Auckland > > New Zealand > > 64 9 3737599 x85392 > > p...@stat.auckland.ac.nz > > http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/ > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.