# 329 search results for "boxplot"

## Boxplots and Day of Week Effects

March 4, 2012
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THIS BLOG DOES NOT CONSTITUTE INVESTMENT ADVICE. ACTING ON IT WILL MOST LIKELY BE DETRIMENTAL TO YOUR FINANCIAL HEALTH.After following some R-related quant finance blogs like Timely Portfolio, Systematic Investor or Quantitative tho...

## Pattern Recognition: forward Boxplot Trajectories using R

July 28, 2011
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Although the following discussion can apply to the Quantitative Candlestick Pattern Recognition series, it is addressing the same issue as any basic conditional type system -- how and when to exit.  The following is one way to visualize and think ...

## Boxplots without boxes

June 14, 2011
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Let’s say you have several categories with multiple data points each that you would like to plot as individual points. Even if you have only a single point, the R graphics package will plot a line (without a box for … Continue reading →

## Visualizing small-scale paired data – combining boxplots, stripcharts, and confidence-intervals in R

June 3, 2011
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Sometimes when working with small paired data-sets it is nice to see/show all the data in a structured form. For example when looking at pre-post comparisons, connected dots are a natural way to visualize which data-points belong together. In R this can be easily be combined with boxplots expressing the overall distribution of the data.  This

## More fun with boxplots

May 19, 2011
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Here are a few more plotting options for boxplots: Let’s start plotting the full set plot(b$mod, b$x) Plot labels for a subset in full set plot (label all points x < -1) text(subset(b$mod, b$x < -1), subset(b$x, b$x < -1), … Continue reading →

## Violin and boxplots with lattice and R

A violin plot is a combination of a boxplot and a kernel density plot. Lattice includes the panel.violin function for this graphical tool. This example draws a violin and a boxplot together. First, let’s download some solar radiation data from the NASA webpage: nasafile <- 'http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/sse/global/text/global_radiation' nasa <- read.table(file=nasafile, skip=13, header=TRUE) Now, I plot a

## Beeswarm Boxplot (and plotting it with R)

March 10, 2011
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(The image above is called a “Beeswarm Boxplot” , the code for producing this image is provided at the end of this post) The above plot is implemented under different names in different softwares. This “Scatter Dot Beeswarm Box Violin – plot” (in the lack of an agreed upon term) is a one-dimensional scatter plot

## Boxplots & Beyond IV: Beanplots

This post is the last in a series of four on boxplots and some of their extensions.  Previous posts in this series have discussed basic boxplots, modified boxplots based on a robust asymmetry measure, and violin plots, an alternative that essentia...

## Boxplots and Beyond III: Violin Plots

This post is the third in a series of four on boxplots and closely related data visualization techniques for comparing subsets of a dataset, or comparing different datasets that we hope or expect to be similarly distributed.  The previous two post...