I have longitudinal repeated measures on individuals over 4 timepoints. Following a mixed models analysis with time as fixed effect and random slopes I have used lsmeans to estimate the mean values at each time point as well as 95% confidence intervals. I would now like to plot a line graph with time points (x) and mean values of my outcome variable (y) with the CIs. Can I use e.g. ggplot to plot the results that I got from lsmeans? Or is there another smart way to plot this?
The results that I get from lsmeans, and that I would like to plot (lsmean, lower.CL, upperCL over time), are:
$lsmeans
time lsmean SE df lower.CL upper.CL
0 21.967213 0.5374422 60 20.892169 23.04226
1 16.069586 0.8392904 60 14.390755 17.74842
2 13.486802 0.8335159 60 11.819522 15.15408
3 9.495137 0.9854642 60 7.523915 11.46636
Confidence level used: 0.95
Is this what you meant?
# To convert from lsmeans output (d <- lsmeans(paramaters))
d <- summary(d)$lsmeans[c("lsmean", "lower.CL", "upper.CL")]
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(d, aes(time)) +
geom_line(aes(y = lsmean)) +
geom_errorbar(aes(ymin = lower.CL, ymax = upper.CL),
width = 0.2) +
geom_point(aes(y = lsmean), size = 3,
shape = 21, fill = "white") +
labs(x = "Time", y = "ls mean",
title = "ls mean result over time") +
theme_bw()