Boxplot: quartiles/outliers
Hi Google "boxplot" see Wikipedia The boxplot was invented in 1977 by American statistician John Tukey. John W. Tukey. "Exploratory Data Analysis". Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA. 1977 So you shall probably look there. HTH Petr
On 14 Feb 2007 at 16:35, Vikas Rawal wrote:
Date sent: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:35:43 +0530 From: Vikas Rawal <vikasrawal at gmail.com> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Copies to: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> Subject: Re: [R] Boxplot: quartiles/outliers
I am not sure why you would want to do this, and a 'box and whiskers plot' was pretty closely defined by the original authors so R does not allow options for forms they did not consider.
I was wondering who the original authors were? Would be interested in looking up their description. VR
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