Create normal curve with individual subject percentile

[Sinval]

I would like to know if somehow has any idea how to produce a graph like this using ggplot2:

Thank you in advance for any possible help.

[DavoWW]

This should get you started (E&OE):

library(ggplot2)

all_mean <- 100
all_sd <- 30
my_score <- 157

dd <- rnorm(n=100000, mean=all_mean, sd=all_sd)
z <- (my_score - all_mean)/all_sd
pc <- round(100*(pnorm(z)), digits=0)
t1 <- paste0(as.character(pc),"th percentile")

p33 <- all_mean + (qnorm(0.3333) * all_sd)
p67 <- all_mean + (qnorm(0.6667) * all_sd)

ggplot() +
  geom_density(aes(dd)) +
  geom_vline(aes(xintercept=my_score), colour="red") +
  geom_label(aes(x=my_score, y=0.001, label=t1)) +
  geom_label(aes(x=my_score, y=0.01, label=as.character(my_score))) +

  geom_segment(aes(x=0,   y=0.014, xend=p33, yend=0.014), colour="blue") +
  geom_segment(aes(x=p33, y=0.014, xend=p67, yend=0.014), colour="orange") +
  geom_segment(aes(x=p67, y=0.014, xend=200, yend=0.014), colour="darkgreen") +
  
  geom_text(aes(x=p33/2, y=0.0145, label="Novice"), colour="blue") +
  geom_text(aes(x=all_mean, y=0.0145, label="Intermediate"), colour="orange") +
  geom_text(aes(x=200-(200-p67)/2, y=0.0145, label="Advanced"), colour="darkgreen") +
  ylim(0, 0.015) +
  labs(x="Score", y="Frequency") +
  theme(legend.position='none')

Created on 2019-09-06 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)

[Sinval]

Excellent! It is an good starting point!

Thank you!

[jpgoldberg]

I believe that this can be improved upon by not making dd the result of a simulation. So something like (untested).

Define dd as the dnorm function with the paramaters you want:

dd <- function(x) { dnorm(x, sd=all_sd, mean=all_mean)

And then within the plot, replace geom_density(aes(dd)) with stat_function(fun = dd).

[jpgoldberg]

And here it is with a reprex. I changed three things from @DavoWW's excellent answer.

1. I defined dd as a function based on dnorm
2. I used stat_function(dd) instead of geom_density
3. I put in a dummy data frame, because ggplot2 really wants data even if all of the plotting comes from other things.

library(ggplot2)

all_mean <- 100
all_sd <- 30
my_score <- 157

dd <- function(x) { dnorm(x, mean=all_mean, sd=all_sd) }
z <- (my_score - all_mean)/all_sd
pc <- round(100*(pnorm(z)), digits=0)
t1 <- paste0(as.character(pc),"th percentile")

p33 <- all_mean + (qnorm(0.3333) * all_sd)
p67 <- all_mean + (qnorm(0.6667) * all_sd)

ggplot(data.frame(x=c(0, 180)), aes(x=x)) +
  stat_function(fun=dd) +
  geom_vline(aes(xintercept=my_score), colour="red") +
  geom_label(aes(x=my_score, y=0.001, label=t1)) +
  geom_label(aes(x=my_score, y=0.01, label=as.character(my_score))) +
  
  geom_segment(aes(x=0,   y=0.014, xend=p33, yend=0.014), colour="blue") +
  geom_segment(aes(x=p33, y=0.014, xend=p67, yend=0.014), colour="orange") +
  geom_segment(aes(x=p67, y=0.014, xend=200, yend=0.014), colour="darkgreen") +
  
  geom_text(aes(x=p33/2, y=0.0145, label="Novice"), colour="blue") +
  geom_text(aes(x=all_mean, y=0.0145, label="Intermediate"), colour="orange") +
  geom_text(aes(x=200-(200-p67)/2, y=0.0145, label="Advanced"), colour="darkgreen") +
  ylim(0, 0.015) +
  labs(x="Score", y="Frequency") +
  theme(legend.position='none')

^{Created on 2019-09-08 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)}

[Sinval]

Excellent, @jpgoldberg!!!