Category Archives: Statistics

Labeled boxplot in R

As generated by R’s boxplot function. I individually labeled the median, quartiles, min, max, and outliers for inclusion in a presentation where the audience can’t be assumed to know how to interpret box plots. Please feel free to use this … Continue reading

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Plotting in Grids

This is post #12 in a running series about plotting in R. I regularly find myself wanting to show arrays or grids of plots in R. This is straightforward using par and mfrow as long as you want a symmetric, … Continue reading

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Visualizing and Comparing Distributions — Part 8 of a Series

This is post #08 in a running series about plotting in R. Last time, I talked about visualizing the Uniform, Normal, Exponential, and Poisson Distributions. However, there are more useful methods than just plotting the density and distribution functions. Of … Continue reading

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Multiple Plots and Visualizing Distributions – Part 7 in a Series

This is post #07 in a running series about plotting in R. I was helping a friend plot some interesting distributions this weekend, so I decided to use distributions to demonstrate one of the neater bits of R’s basic plotting … Continue reading

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