Example Using a By Variable

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Example Using a By Variable

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

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Select Analyze > Distribution.

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Select Cholesterol and click Y, Columns.

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Select Gender and click By.

This results in a separate analysis for each level of Gender (female and male).

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Change the orientation of the histograms and the reports.

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From the red triangle next to Distributions, select Stack.

Add a smooth curve to both histograms.

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Hold down the Ctrl key. From the red triangle next to Cholesterol, select Continous Fit > Smooth Curve.

Figure 3.14 Separate Distributions by Gender

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Help created on 3/19/2020