Comments for page "Dynamite plots: unmitigated evil?"

notches/violins

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:07:37 +0000

(restoring accidentally deleted post)

I discuss notched boxplots above; ggplot2 doesn't have such an option at present (I think). I also discuss violin plots — I don't know of something specifically called a "violin boxplot". Can you say more specifically what you were looking for?

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Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:12:07 +0000

What you talk about is base boxplot. Do you think it will be better to some words on notched boxplot and violin boxplot?

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Thu, 05 May 2011 15:54:34 +0000

So nice to get a non-spam comment!

A box-percentile plot uses the empirical cumulative distribution function, the violin plot uses the kernel density estimate (so, basically a smoother version of the box-percentile plot).

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Thu, 05 May 2011 15:49:02 +0000

I'm not sure how a box-percentile plot is different from a violin plot. Am I missing something?

Beanplots

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:20:54 +0000

Ben,

Excellent book. Thank you for publishing it.

An alternative to above is the beanplot which I have found useful for comparing posteriors from Bayesian analyses. They are similar to the raindrop plots described by Barrowman and Myers (2001) but is contained in a nice R-package. I prefer them to violin or box plots since bimodality can be hidden with those approaches.

http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/beanplot/index.html

I hope you find this useful to the debate.
Cheers,
Trevor

Barrowman, N.J. and R.A. Myers. A new graphical display for meta-analysis: the Raindrop Plot. Am. Stat.