From the course: Introduction to jamovi

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Violin plots

Violin plots

- [Instructor] Jamovi includes one really kind of unusual, kind of funny-looking graph. It's called a violin plot. And what it is, and it's sort of the box plot version of the density plot. And it just kind of spreads out. And you'll see why it's called a violin. I'm starting with the iris data set from the example data, and I'm using the box plots that I created in the last video. I'm simply going to click here where I have the four variables, and I'm not splitting them by anything. And I'm going to come here over to plots, and again, the reason violin's right here is because jamovi's able to stack all three of these on top of each other. You don't want to do that 'cause it gets really busy looking, but I'm going to show you the relationship between the box plot and the violin plot by simply adding it right here. When I do that, you get a shape that looks a little bit like a Rorschach ink blot that actually corresponds to what's happening in the box plot. Here, for instance, you can…

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