Hi Paul, On Sat, 15 Feb 2014, Paul Hobson wrote: > As the author of the fix and the recent overhaul to boxplots
Thanks for that! > I can say with certainty that R is wrong! ;-) phew -- thanks ;) > More seriously, the main thing that I take away from Tukey's paper about > boxplots, is that there are many valid ways to draw them. I personally set > up the new boxplot functionality to take the most basic boxplot definition > very literally. My guess is that R is fudging those rules a bit for the > purpose of completeness, or aesthetics, or ...(?) well -- I was trying to figure out why the divergence from R's boxplot help, but so far it seemed to match description/definition for boxplot as in matplotlib. I guess the next step would be to look "inside" (running apt-get source r-base now ;-) ) > Perhaps one can look at the purpose of boxplots in two different fashions: > 1) Matplotlib: show some of the data and some basic stats > 2) R (I'm guession): show how the data are /probably/ distributed.� > Obviously, I prefer #1. But I'm not going to say that #2 is wrong just > yet. would you may be interested to adopt (or just do independently) an option to e.g. plot the data point? once I shared this one http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/www.onerussian.com/tmp/run_plots.ipynb and the actual code https://gist.github.com/yarikoptic/9023331 I just never got to formalize it into mpl pull request :-/ -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko, Ph.D. http://neuro.debian.net http://www.pymvpa.org http://www.fail2ban.org Senior Research Associate, Psychological and Brain Sciences Dept. Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Android apps run on BlackBerry 10 Introducing the new BlackBerry 10.2.1 Runtime for Android apps. Now with support for Jelly Bean, Bluetooth, Mapview and more. Get your Android app in front of a whole new audience. Start now. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=124407151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
