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Density plots - jamovi Tutorial
From the course: Introduction to jamovi
Density plots
- [Instructor] When you're looking at the distribution of a quantitative or continuous variable, a histogram is usually the first choice, and that's what I have right here. And in the last video, I made histograms. Here, I have it for the entire variable with all three groups combined, and then, down below, I have the three groups separated out. And this is a nice way to do it. However, another alternative that, truthfully, I prefer, is to smooth out the choppiness of this a little bit with something called a Density plot. And to do that, let's simply click on the existing analysis. One of the nice things about jamovi is that when you click on an analysis, it brings up the menu that produced it. And so here we have Descriptives. I've got the four quantitative or continuous variables here. I have all the statistics turned off 'cause I didn't want a table there. And I've got Histogram right down here. Now, the reason Histogram and Density are both listed below the Histograms title is…
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