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Boxplot by Class

With a boxplot it is often useful to display the distribution of one variable as it relates to some other variable. An example in the wine data would be to partition the data according to the Type, and then to explore the resulting distribution of, for example, Malic. This is achieved with the formula notation Malic ~ Type. The boxplot then allows us to understand any potential relationship between the input variable and the output variable. For such plots we enable the notch display, which indicates whether there is a significant difference between the medians. In the case here the median for Type 3 is significantly different from the other two, but the other two are not significantly different from each other.

[width=0.8]rplot-wine-boxplot-type

load("wine.Rdata")
attach(wine)
boxplot(Malic ~ Type, notch=TRUE, xlab="Type", ylab="Malic")

http://rattle.togaware.com/code/rplot-wine-boxplot-type.R

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