Exploratory Data Analysis

in Jamovi
Zeren Lucky L. Cabanayan
STAT2100 – Statistical Analysis with Software Application
1st Semester, 2024-2025

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Learning Outcomes
After completing this chapter, the students must be able to
• Perform descriptive analysis in Jamovi
• Perform data visualizations in Jamovi

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Descriptives in Jamovi
• Once open, if you click
the Analyses tab on top, then
click Exploration on the left, a
drop-down menu will appear
where you select Descriptives.
You’ll see a window with the
variables from the data set on
the right in a box. If you want to
analyze them, you need to select
them and click the arrow to get
them into the right box
(either Variables or Split by).
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• Once you click the Statistics option you

will see the following: Sample Size,
Percentile Values, Central Tendency,
Dispersion, Mean Dispersion, Distribution
and Normality.
• Whereas, one you click the Plots option,
you will see the following: Histograms, Box
Plots, Bar Plots and Q-Q Plot
• Those options are used to describe the
variable depending on the
type/measurement of the variable.

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Summarizing
Continuous
Variable
• Let us try to
analyze two
variable such
as sex and age.

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• The first thing you might notice is that the variable sex
only shows the results for N and Missing. This is
because it is a nominal variable, and you can’t do very
much with nominal data except describe frequencies,
detect missing values, and split data up into subgroups
(the function of the Split by box below
the Variables box).
• Whereas, for variable age, since it is a
quantitative variable, all the options you have
chosen in the Statistics option will
automatically appear in the results window.

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• One useful function to highlight at this point is how to remove analyses (or
visualizations) that you no longer wish to include. Just CTRL-click (or right-
click) anywhere on the output, then select Analysis > Remove. It will
disappear. You will inevitably need to do this a lot to keep
your Jamovi (.omv) file from being cluttered.

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• Another useful function, using that same CTRL-click (or right-click)

function, is that you can also save or copy a table or image for use in
another document. So if you wanted to take the table output, save it as
a .pdf, then insert it into this document, you would CTRL-click the table,
go to Table > Save and save it as a .pdf file. This image could then be
displayed in many different types of presentations.

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Grouped summaries
• Recall that we can’t get
very many descriptive
statistics from nominal
variables. However,
they are very useful is
in splitting up your
outcome variable into
various groups.

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Frequencies
• When describing data, we usually need to provide an indication of the
relative numbers of responses in each category.

• Just select the

nominal variable
that you want to
present in
frequencies and
then click the
Frequency tables
option.

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Data visualizations
There are a few visualizations possible from
among the Jamovi Descriptives options.

Remarks:
• These visualizations of descriptive statistics are used mostly by
researchers to help them make decisions about subsequent analyses.
• Note that plots such as Histograms, Box Plots and Q-Q Plot from the
the Descriptives menu will only work if the variable you are trying to
visualize is continuous variable.

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Histogram
• Histogram is a well-known
visualization where the
frequencies of a particular
responses are either “binned”
if they are non-discrete (e.g.,
values with decimals), or
possibly “stacked” if they are
discrete integers (though
such a variable may be
binned as well).
• To do this, just click the
Histogram option in the Plots.

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• Often paired with the

histogram is the density
plot, which uses math to
estimate what a
population distribution
with many, many
observations would look
like based on the sample
data you have.
• Just click the Density
option below Histogram.

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Boxplots
• One of the drawbacks of
histograms and density plots is
that, although they are handy
with respect to depicting the
informal shape of a
distribution, they are not so
good at showing particular
statistics about any given
variable. This is where the
boxplot comes in.
• To do this, just click the Box
plot option in the Plots. You
can also click the Label outliers
for outlier detection in the
data.
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Bar plots
• The bar plot is a good way
of visualizing frequency
data. It can be very useful,
ultimately, for chi-square
analyses and the display of
individual Likert items.
• To do this, just click the
Bar Plots option in the
Plots.

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Q-Q plots
• This plot is strictly
diagnostic. It’s a quick
way to detect whether
your data is normally
distributed or not. In
general, it plots the
quantiles of two
distributions against each
other.
• To do this, just click the
Q-Q option in the Plots.
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Some useful videos

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEG6oI7HHOk&t=101s

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