Can the box plot be improved?

Invented by Spear in 1952 and popularized by Tukey in 1977, the box plot is widely used for displaying and comparing samples of continuous observations. Despite its popularity, it is less effective for showing shape behaviour of distributions, particularly bimodality. Using robust estimators of data...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chamnein Choonpradub, Don McNeil
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Prince of Songkla University 2005-05-01
Series:Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology (SJST)
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Online Access:http://www.sjst.psu.ac.th/journal/27-3-pdf/17box-plot.pdf