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Re: st: Box and whiskers graph


From   Marcello Pagano <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Box and whiskers graph
Date   Wed, 07 Jul 2004 11:56:17 -0400

Not to detract from John Tukey's work at all, but inventor, even in quotes, is too strong a word. For the record, see,

Spear, M. E. Charting Statistics, New York:Mc Graw-Hill, 1952,

and, as Nick Cox has pointed out to me, they also appeared even earlier in,

Crowe, P.R., The analysis of rainfall probability. A graphical method and its application to European data. Scottish Geographical Magazine, 1933, 49: 73-91.

m.p.



Elizabeth Allred wrote:


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
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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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