It uses quartiles. Regards, Jean
Le mardi 25 octobre 2011 à 07:02 -0400, John C Nash a écrit : > As a follow up to this, does Gnumeric use quartiles or hinges? (See Tukeys > EDA book for > the definition -- this was the original boxplot construction rule). About 20 > years ago the > graphical and printer-plot versions of boxplots in Minitab used different > rules -- > quartiles for the graphical boxplots and hinges for the printer-plot version, > giving very > different appearance to some student scripts. This caused us a lot of grief > with students > whose scripts were marked "wrong". > > I can probably find a short description I wrote somewhere if there is > interest. > > JN > > > On 10/25/2011 03:31 AM, gnumeric-list-requ...@gnome.org wrote: > > Von: Jean Brefort [mailto:jean.bref...@normalesup.org] > > Gesendet: Montag, 24. Oktober 2011 10:42 > > An: Kuehtreiber Hannes > > Cc: gnumeric-list@gnome.org > > Betreff: Re: outlieres in boxplots > > > > The answer to your question is at > > http://itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section3/boxplot.htm > > > > Regards, > > Jean > > > _______________________________________________ > gnumeric-list mailing list > gnumeric-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list gnumeric-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
