Posts Tagged ‘howto’

Not Just Normal… Gaussian

Dave, over at The Revolutions Blog, posted about the big ‘ol list of graphs created with R that are over at Wikimedia Commons. As I was scrolling through the list I recognized the standard normal distribution from the Wikipedia article on the same topic.
Below is the fairly simple source code with lots of comments. Here’s [...]

Box plot vs. Violin plot in R

So Andrew Gelman hates box plots. Not that you should give a buck what Gelman thinks. I’m just setting this blog post up, OK. So stick with me. Gelman also thought this XKCD cartoon was NOT funny :

There’s some correlation as well as causation. I could be wrong, but I suspect that the reason Gelman [...]