What is the best way to add 1000 regression lines to a ggplot? (Model-based bootstrapping)

Question

From a bootstrapping model I have 1000 sets of coefficients for this regression model:

y = b0 + b1x + b2(x^2)

What is the function call to plot a quadratic line if I already have the coefficients? I.E. I do not want to "fit" a linear model to my data.

I tried adding lines via a for loop to my ggplot object:

for (i in 1:1000) { 
  reg_line <- stat_function(fun=function(x) quad$coefficients[1] + 
                                      quad$coefficients[i,2]*x + quad$coefficients[i,3]*(x**2))
  reg_lines <- reg_lines + reg_line}

That didn't work - it seems to only add the last line in the loop.

The reason I want to add 1000 regression lines to my plot is because it is for a homework problem - I am well aware this is not a common use case.

Sorry. Too glib. You won't be able to use `geom_abline` for quadratic, but are you able to use it to add 1000 straight lines on to your plot, or does it too only add the last one? To get a better response you should probalbly include a minimal reproducible example so that when we run your code we get the same result. Right now you've only given an excerpt. — Hugh, Mar 03 '20 at 09:53
Maybe this (the second answer): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15633714/adding-a-regression-line-on-a-ggplot — Edward, Mar 03 '20 at 09:54

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 03 '20 at 10:46

There may be other ways to do this, but hopefully this can give you some ideas. I used the mtcars dataset and generated some bootstrap samples for modelling. You can skip this step.

library(ggplot2)
library(tidyr)
library(dplyr)

data(mtcars)

drat=seq(min(mtcars$drat), max(mtcars$drat), length.out=100)

# Bootstrap function
bs <- function() {
  df = mtcars[sample(1:nrow(mtcars), replace=TRUE),]
  lm_fit <- lm(mpg ~ drat+I(drat^2), data=df)
  data.frame(Model=predict(lm_fit, newdata=data.frame(drat))) # Replace with your own
}

foo <- replicate(10, bs()) # Simulate

You would start from here since you should already have a data frame or list of predicted values from your 1,000 bootstrap models. Reshape it into a very long form to create a grouping column for the geom_line function.

foo_long <- data.frame(foo, drat) %>%
  pivot_longer(cols=-drat, names_to="Model", values_to="mpg")

ggplot(data = mtcars, aes(x = drat, y = mpg)) + 
  geom_point(color='blue') +
  geom_line(data = foo_long, aes(x=drat, y=mpg, group=Model, color=Model)) +
  guides(color=FALSE)

Thank you for your detailed answer. I think this is the way to do it. — jbpib27, Mar 04 '20 at 08:04

What is the best way to add 1000 regression lines to a ggplot? (Model-based bootstrapping)

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