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Category plots are two-dimensional plots with a continuous numeric variable on one axis and a non-numeric (text) category on the other. Most often they are presented as bar charts with one or more bars occupying a category slot either side-by-side or stacked or some combination of the two.
You can also combine them with error bars:
Category plots are created in ordinary graph windows when you use a text wave as the X data.
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