I'd be happy to be shown wrong, but it seems the current
incarnation of boxplot cannot do this.
The current syntax is:
boxplot(x, notch=0, sym='+', vert=1, whis=1.5,
positions=None, widths=None)
What it *could* have to support what is needed is
an extra parameter:
boxplot(x, notch=
I would like to have the extreme end of the upper whisker
on the box plot co-incide with the 98% of the data.
According to the documents:
whis (default 1.5) defines the length of the whiskers as
a function of the inner quartile range. They extend to the
most extreme data point wi
