The Integrated Violin-Box-Scatter (VBS) Plot to Visualize the Distribution of a Continuous Variable

The Integrated Violin-Box-Scatter (VBS) Plot to Visualize the Distribution of a Continuous Variable

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The histogram remains a widely used tool for visualization of the distribution of a continuous variable, despite the disruption of binning the underlying continuity into somewhat arbitrarily sized discrete intervals imposed by the simplicity of its pre-computer origins.Alternatives include three visualizations, namely a smoothed density apac1/60/1/cw distribution such as a violin plot, a box plot, and the direct visualization of the individual data values as a one-dimensional scatter plot.To promote ease of use, the plotting function discussed in click here this work, Plot(x), automatically integrates these three visualizations of a continuous variable x into what is called a VBS plot here, tuning the resulting plot to the sample size and discreteness of the data.This integration complements the information derived from the histogram well and more easily generalizes to a multi-panel presentation at each level of a second categorical variable.