5.3 A continuous variable split by a categorical variable
There are three options under Box Plots: Box plot
, Violin
(which is really a density plot with its mirror image!), Data
(which can be Jittered or Stacked; I prefer Jittered so you can see the density of data points really well), and Mean
. Personally, I love checking all four boxes! This gives you the best of all of them: the distribution of your data with the Violin
option, the quartiles and mean with the Box plot
option, a visualization of all your data points using the Data
option, which is really useful because the other two options can be hiding weird things in your data, and what the Mean
is.