Chapter 10 Histogram
10.1 Intro
Histograms are normally used to inspect the distribution of continuous (cardinal, e.g. interval or ratio-level) variables.
10.1.1 Example dataset
This example uses the Rosetta Stats example dataset “pp15” (see Chapter 1 for information about the datasets and Chapter 3 for an explanation of how to load datasets).
10.1.2 Variable(s)
From this dataset, this example uses variable xtcUsePillHigh.
10.2 Input: jamovi
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10.3 Input: R
Use the following command (this requires the rosetta package to be installed, see section 2.2.2, and the example dataset to be stored under name dat, see section 3):
10.4 Input: SPSS GUI
First activate the dat dataset (see 2.3.1).
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10.5 Input: SPSS Syntax
Use the following command (this requires the dat dataset to be the active dataset, see 2.3.1):
GRAPH /HISTOGRAM(NORMAL) = xtcUsePillHigh.10.6 Output: jamovi
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10.7 Output: R
Figure 10.4: The produced box plot in R.
10.8 Output: SPSS
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10.9 Read more
If you would like more background on this topic, you can read more in these sources:
- Discovering Statistics with SPSS (closed access):
- Learning Statistics with R (Navarro 2018): section XXXXXXXXXX, page XXXXXXXXXX (or follow this link for the Bookdown version)