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Reading a box plot
Reading a mosaic plot
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Reading a box plot
The top of the box represents the 75th percentile where 75% of data is below that, the bottom of the box represents the 25th percentile and 25% of data is below that. The dark bar represents the median, where 50% of the data is below that line.
The vertical line indicates the broader spread of the data and any dots represent outliers. So this tells us the spread of the data for each group.
As you can see, our box plot also shows a shift towards the high end. But remember, our data skews heavily with Democrats.
Professor Jane Lawrence-Sumner, POL 3085, Quantitative Analysis in Political Science, March 26, 2020
Reading a mosaic plot
Mosaic plots consist of groups of rectangles that represent the cells in a contingency table. Both the sizes and the positions of the rectangles are relevant to mosaic plot interpretation, making them one of the more advanced plots around. With a little practice they can become an invaluable tool in the representation and exploration of multivariate categorical data.
Our Moderately and Very much answers stand out. Click on the HIGHLIGHT RESPONSES button to better see this.
Hofmann, Heike. “Mosaic Plots and Their Variants.” SpringerLink. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, January 1, 1970. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-33037-0_24.
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