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Re:Show HN: ciTools – Quickly calculate uncertainty interval... by minimaxir on Sunday October 08, 2017 @05:35PM (#15430125)
I'm confused by the use of ggplot2 as shown in the example: ggplot2 and geom_smooth() already calculates and plots confidence intervals by default. What does this package add to a ggplot?
Re:Show HN: ciTools – Quickly calculate uncertainty interval... by jth0 on Sunday October 08, 2017 @05:43PM (#15430170)
ciTools doesn't add anything to ggplot, it creates tidy dataframes that are easy to plot with ggplot. In the example, we show CIs and PIs on a linear mixed model, which ggplot can't handle.
Re:Show HN: ciTools – Quickly calculate uncertainty interval... by RA_Fisher on Sunday October 08, 2017 @09:57PM (#15431131)
ggplot's has a built in interval for lm that I'm aware of, but there are essentially statistical interval toolkits that you can supply yourself. This lib is a handful of implementations.

Bayesian stats has "credible intrrvals." These are different than those from relative likelihood and those from Frequentist methods.

ggplot's built-in scratch the surface but are still really handy and easy to extend.