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Translating Statistics to Make Decisions: A Guide for the Non-Statistician
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Translating Statistics to Make Decisions: A Guide for the Non-Statistician

by Victoria Cox
March 2017
Beginner
324 pages
9h
English
Apress
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© Victoria Cox 2017

Victoria Cox, Translating Statistics to Make Decisions , 10.1007/978-1-4842-2256-0_9

9. Graphs

What Does the Data Look Like?

Victoria Cox

(1)Dstl, Salisbury, UK

The best way to convey a key message is through visualization, so picking the most clear and concise graph to do that is crucial.

Contrary to popular belief, using Excel to plot data isn’t necessarily the easiest software to use or the most appropriate. Once you understand the ggplot() code in R, it is very easy to create simple but informative graphs for all different data types.

Chapter 3 described which plots could be drawn for which data types, so I will not repeat that here. However more detail will be given as to how to improve the look of plots in R along with some ...

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