Re: boxplots

[Jean Brefort <jean brefort normalesup org>]

It uses quartiles.

Regards,
Jean

Le mardi 25 octobre 2011 à 07:02 -0400, John C Nash a écrit :
> 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
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