Can the box plot be improved?
Invented by Spear in 1952 and popularized by Tukey in 1977, the box plot is widely used for displaying and comparing samples of continuous observations. Despite its popularity, it is less effective for showing shape behaviour of distributions, particularly bimodality. Using robust estimators of data...
| Published in: | Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology (SJST) |
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Prince of Songkla University
2005-05-01
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| Online Access: | http://www.sjst.psu.ac.th/journal/27-3-pdf/17box-plot.pdf |