Example of Grouped Normal Contour Ellipsoids

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Essential Graphing • Scatterplot 3D • Additional Examples of the Scatterplot 3D Platform • Example of Grouped Normal Contour Ellipsoids

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Example of Grouped Normal Contour Ellipsoids

This example shows how to group measurements by species and to format each group with a normal contour ellipsoid. The ellipsoids cover 75% of the data points and are 50% transparent. The contours are color-coded (using JMP default colors) based on species.

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Select Help > Sample Data Library and open Iris.jmp.

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Select Graph > Scatterplot 3D.

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Select Sepal length, Sepal width, Petal length, and Petal width and click Y, Columns.

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From the red triangle menu, select Normal Contour Ellipsoids.

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Select Grouped by Column.

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Select Species.

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Type 0.75 next to Coverage.

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Type 0.5 next to Transparency.

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Figure 5.9 Example of Grouped Normal Contour Ellipsoids

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Help created on 10/11/2018