Message-ID: <17222.8698.164809.696145@stat.math.ethz.ch>
Date: 2005-10-07T07:21:30Z
From: Martin Maechler
Subject: The R Graph Gallery {was boxplot statistics}
In-Reply-To: <1128633792.434595c0b7fc8@imp1-g19.free.fr>
>>>>> "Romain" == Romain Francois <francoisromain at free.fr>
>>>>> on Thu, 06 Oct 2005 23:23:12 +0200 writes:
Romain> Selon bogdan romocea <br44114 at gmail.com>:
>> A related comment - don't rely (too much) on boxplots. They show only
>> a few things, which may be limiting in many cases and completely
>> misleading in others. Here are a couple of suggestions for plots which
>> you may find more useful than the standard box plots:
>> - figure 3.27 from
>> http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/RGraphics/chapter3.html
>> - violin plots (see package vioplot) - density plots - histograms
>> - box-percentile plots (bpplot from Hmisc)
>> - quantile plots
>> - if comparing 2 distributions, qq plots, quantile-difference plots,
>> mean-difference plots etc.
Romain> Hi,
Romain> HDR (highest density regions) boxplots are interresting.
Romain> See http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/RGraphGallery.php?graph=102
Let me take the opportunity to thank Romain
for setting up and maintaining the R Graph Gallery.
This is really a cool website for R users.
He'd get my number one vote for "R website of the year"!
Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich