StatsNotebook

The tutorial is based on R and StatsNotebook, a graphical interface for R.

Density plot can be used to show the distribution of numeric variables. StatsNotebook uses geom_density() from ggplot2 to build density plot.

We use the built-in alcohol dataset in this example. This dataset can be loaded into StatsNotebook using instruction here. This is a simulated data of alcohol consumption from 3666 individuals.

This dataset can also be loaded using the following codes

library(tidyverse)
currentDataset <- read_csv("https://statsnotebook.io/blog/data_management/example_data/alcohol.csv")

We will use the following three variables from this dataset

1. alcohol - Number of standard drinks consumed in a month
2. Remoteness - Capital city or regional area
3. State - Seven states/territories in Australia: Queensland, New South Wales, Northern Territory, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia.

In this example, we will build

Simple density plot

Density plot by groups

Multiple density plots

Simple density plot

To build a simple density plot for a single numeric variable (e.g. alcohol),

1. Click DataViz at the top
2. Click Numeric
3. Select Density from the menu
4. In the density panel, select alcohol to Horizontal Axis.
5. Click Code and Run.

R codes

currentDataset %>%
  ggplot(aes(x = alcohol)) +
  geom_density(alpha = 0.2, na.rm = TRUE)+
    scale_fill_brewer(palette = "Set2")+
    scale_color_brewer(palette = "Set2")+
    theme_bw(base_family = "sans")+
    theme(legend.position = "bottom")


"Chan, G. and StatsNotebook Team (2020). StatsNotebook. (Version 0.1.0) [Computer Software]. Retrieved from https://www.statsnotebook.io"
"R Core Team (2020). The R Project for Statistical Computing. [Computer software]. Retrieved from https://r-project.org"
"Wickham H (2016). ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis. Springer-Verlag New York. ISBN 978-3-319-24277-4, https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org"

Output from the above R codes

Density plot by groups

To build a density plot for a single numeric variable (e.g. alcohol) by groups (e.g. Remoteness),

1. Click DataViz at the top
2. Click Numeric
3. Select Density from the menu
4. In the density panel, select alcohol to Horizontal axis and select Remoteness to Split by: Fill Color.
   • Remoteness is a categorical variable. If it is not yet coded as factor, you will need to manually covert it into a factor variable.
5. Click Code and Run.

currentDataset %>%
  drop_na(Remoteness) %>%
  ggplot(aes(x = alcohol, fill = Remoteness, color = Remoteness)) +
  geom_density(alpha = 0.2, na.rm = TRUE)+
    scale_fill_brewer(palette = "Set2")+
    scale_color_brewer(palette = "Set2")+
    theme_bw(base_family = "sans")+
    theme(legend.position = "bottom")


"Chan, G. and StatsNotebook Team (2020). StatsNotebook. (Version 0.1.0) [Computer Software]. Retrieved from https://www.statsnotebook.io"
"R Core Team (2020). The R Project for Statistical Computing. [Computer software]. Retrieved from https://r-project.org"
"Wickham H (2016). ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis. Springer-Verlag New York. ISBN 978-3-319-24277-4, https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org"

Output from the above R codes

Multiple density plots

To build density plots for a single numeric variable (e.g. alcohol) by groups (e.g. Remoteness) in multiple facets (by another variable, e.g. State),

1. Click DataViz at the top
2. Click Numeric
3. Select Density from the menu
4. In the density panel, select alcohol to Horizontal axis, select Remoteness to Split by: Fill Color and State to Facet.
   • Remoteness and State are categorical variables. If they are not yet coded as factor, you will need to manually covert it into a factor variable.
5. Click Code and Run.

currentDataset %>%
  drop_na(Remoteness, State) %>%
  ggplot(aes(x = alcohol, fill = Remoteness, color = Remoteness)) +
  geom_density(alpha = 0.2, na.rm = TRUE)+
    scale_fill_brewer(palette = "Set2")+
    scale_color_brewer(palette = "Set2")+
    facet_wrap( ~ State)+
    theme_bw(base_family = "sans")+
    theme(legend.position = "bottom")


"Chan, G. and StatsNotebook Team (2020). StatsNotebook. (Version 0.1.0) [Computer Software]. Retrieved from https://www.statsnotebook.io"
"R Core Team (2020). The R Project for Statistical Computing. [Computer software]. Retrieved from https://r-project.org"
"Wickham H (2016). ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis. Springer-Verlag New York. ISBN 978-3-319-24277-4, https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org"

Output from the above R codes

Citation

Chan, G. and StatsNotebook Team (2020). StatsNotebook. [Computer Software]. Retrieved from https://www.statsnotebook.io
R Core Team (2020). The R Project for Statistical Computing. [Computer software]. Retrieved from https://r-project.org
Wickham H (2016). ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis. Springer-Verlag New York. ISBN 978-3-319-24277-4, https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org

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