Re: boxplots

[John C Nash <nashjc uottawa ca>]

As a follow up to this, does Gnumeric use quartiles or hinges? (See Tukeys EDA book for
the definition -- this was the original boxplot construction rule). About 20 years ago the
graphical and printer-plot versions of boxplots in Minitab used different rules --
quartiles for the graphical boxplots and hinges for the printer-plot version, giving very
different appearance to some student scripts. This caused us a lot of grief with students
whose scripts were marked "wrong".

I can probably find a short description I wrote somewhere if there is interest.

JN


On 10/25/2011 03:31 AM, gnumeric-list-request gnome org wrote:
> Von: Jean Brefort [mailto:jean brefort normalesup org] 
> Gesendet: Montag, 24. Oktober 2011 10:42
> An: Kuehtreiber Hannes
> Cc: gnumeric-list gnome org
> Betreff: Re: outlieres in boxplots
>
> The answer to your question is at
> http://itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section3/boxplot.htm
>
> Regards,
> Jean