range_heuristic.R

library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)

v_get_random_betas = Vectorize(rbeta)

ALPHAS = c(1, 2, 5, 1)
BETAS =  c(5, 5, 5, 1)
DISTS = c("Floor", "Left of center", "Normalish", "Uniform")
NS = seq(10, 70, by = 5)
ITERS = 1e4

#Tests
if (length(ALPHAS) != length(BETAS)) {
  stop("alphas and betas must be equal length")
}
if (length(ALPHAS) != length(DISTS)) {
  stop("every Distributio needs a name")
}

#Create a data frame
df = data.frame(
  iter = rep(1:ITERS, each = length(ALPHAS) * length(NS)),
  n = rep(NS, each = length(ALPHAS)),
  alpha = ALPHAS,
  beta =  BETAS,
  Distribution = DISTS
)


system.time({
  #Compute the true and approximate SD
  df = df %>% mutate(
    beta_values = v_get_random_betas(n, alpha, beta),
    sd = unlist(lapply(beta_values, sd)),
    min = unlist(lapply(beta_values, min)),
    max = unlist(lapply(beta_values, max)),
    heuristic_sd = abs(min - max) / 4,
    ape = abs(sd - heuristic_sd) / sd * 100 #average percentage error
  )
})

#Summarize to get mean average percentage error
sdf = df %>%
  group_by(n, Distribution) %>%
  summarise(mape = mean(ape),
            ape_se = sqrt(var(ape) / length(ape)))
View(sdf)
#Hallo Herr Schulte!
p = ggplot(sdf,
           aes(
             x = n,
             y = mape,
             group = Distribution,
             color = Distribution,
             shape = Distribution
           )) +
  geom_line() +
  geom_point() +
  labs(x = "Sample size",
       y = "Mean Absolute Percent Error",
       title = "Range / 4 Heuristic") +
  scale_y_continuous(limits = c(0, 50)) +
  scale_x_continuous(breaks = seq(10, 70, by = 10)) +
  theme(legend.position = "bottom")
p
#ggsave(plot=p,file="range.heuristic.png",width=4.5,height=5)

ITER2 = 1000

df2 = data.frame(
  Distribution = c(
    rep("Floor", ITER2 * 50),
    rep("Left of center", ITER2 * 50),
    rep("Normalish", ITER2 * 50),
    rep("Uniform", ITER2 * 50)
  ),
  values = c(
    unlist(
      subset(df, n == 50 &
               Distribution == "Floor" & iter <= ITER2)$beta_values
    ),
    unlist(
      subset(df, n == 50 &
               Distribution == "Left of center" & iter <= ITER2)$beta_values
    ),
    unlist(
      subset(df, n == 50 &
               Distribution == "Normalish" & iter <= ITER2)$beta_values
    ),
    unlist(
      subset(df, n == 50 &
               Distribution == "Uniform" & iter <= ITER2)$beta_values
    )
  )
)

p = ggplot(df2, aes(x = values, fill = Distribution)) +
  geom_density(alpha = .3, bw = .0025) +
  facet_grid(Distribution ~ .) +
  theme(legend.position = "bottom")
p
#ggsave(plot=p,file="range.heuristic.dists.png",width=4.5,height=5)