library(ggplot2) library(dplyr) # Create Laplace distribution function dlaplace <- function(x, mu = 0, b = 1) { 1/(2*b) * exp(-abs(x - mu)/b) } # Generate data points x <- seq(-4, 4, length.out = 1000) y <- dlaplace(x) df <- data.frame(x = x, y = y) # Calculate quantiles using the Laplace quantile function plaplace <- function(p, mu = 0, b = 1) { mu - b * sign(p - 0.5) * log(1 - 2 * abs(p - 0.5)) } # Calculate quantiles probs <- seq(0.05, 0.95, length.out = 15) quantiles <- c(-20, sapply(probs, plaplace), 20) # Create data frame for the clipped vertical lines line_data <- data.frame() for(q in quantiles[2:(length(quantiles)-1)]) { # Skip the ±20 points y_at_q <- dlaplace(q) line_data <- rbind(line_data, data.frame(x = q, y_start = 0, y_end = y_at_q)) } # Create data for filled intervals interval_data <- data.frame() for(i in 1:(length(quantiles)-1)) { x_seq <- seq(max(-4, quantiles[i]), min(4, quantiles[i+1]), length.out = 100) interval_data <- rbind(interval_data, data.frame( x = x_seq, y = dlaplace(x_seq), group = i )) } # Create the plot ggplot() + # Add filled intervals geom_ribbon(data = interval_data, aes(x = x, ymin = 0, ymax = y, group = group), fill = "lightblue", alpha = 0.3) + # Add the distribution curve geom_line(data = df, aes(x = x, y = y), color = "blue", size = 1) + # Add thin solid blue vertical lines for quantiles geom_segment(data = line_data, aes(x = x, xend = x, y = y_start, yend = y_end), color = "blue", linetype = "solid", size = 0.3, alpha = 0.7) + # Add quantile labels geom_text(data = data.frame( x = quantiles[2:(length(quantiles)-1)], # Skip the ±20 points y = rep(-0.02, 15), label = paste0("Q", 1:15) ), aes(x = x, y = y, label = label), angle = 45, vjust = 1, size = 3) + # Add infinity labels geom_text(data = data.frame( x = c(-4, 4), y = rep(-0.02, 2), label = c("Q0 (-∞)", "Q16 (+∞)") ), aes(x = x, y = y, label = label), angle = 45, vjust = 1, size = 3) + # Customize the theme and labels theme_minimal() + labs( title = "Laplace Distribution with 17 Quantiles", subtitle = "μ = 0, b = 1", x = "x", y = "Density" ) + # Set the axis limits scale_x_continuous(limits = c(-4, 4)) + ylim(-0.05, 0.55) + # Add theme customizations theme( plot.title = element_text(hjust = 0.5), plot.subtitle = element_text(hjust = 0.5), panel.grid.minor = element_blank() )