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RE: st: Box and whiskers graph


From   "Elizabeth Allred" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   RE: st: Box and whiskers graph
Date   Wed, 07 Jul 2004 08:24:52 -0400

John Tukey is the "inventor" of box and whisker plots. See Chapter 2 in:
John W. Tukey
Exploratory Data Analysis
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company
Reading, MA
1977

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
> Wallace, John
> Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 8:38 PM
> To: '[email protected]'
> Subject: RE: st: Box and whiskers graph
> 
> 
> One reference for the construction is J.L Devore, Probability 
> and Statistics. 1995. 4th Edition. Duxbury Press, Boston MA.  
> I came across it as the "Box plot Rule" in a biotech industry 
> publication (Panvera, now defunct I believe).  It was part of 
> a discussion of methods for detecting and handling outliers in data.


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