Tag: boxplot

Example 9.17: (much) better pairs plots

Pairs plots (section 5.1.17) are a useful way of displaying the pairwise relations between variables in a dataset. But the default display is unsatisfactory when the variables aren’t all continuous. In this entry, we discuss ways to improve these dis…

Example 8.11: violin plots

We’ve continued to get useful feedback and ideas from our posts on the combination dotplot/boxplot and other ways to craft similar displays. Another notion is the violin plot, which combines a boxplot and a (doubled) kernel density plot. While the ba…

Example 8.10: Combination dotplot/boxplot (teaching graphic in honor of World Statistics Day)

In honor of World Statistics Day and the read paper that my co-authors Chris Wild, Maxine Pfannkuch, Matt Regan, and I are presenting at the Royal Statistical Society today, we present the R code to generate a combination dotplot/boxplot that is useful…