Opening the Box of a Boxplot

Authors
Citation
Benjamini, Yoav, Opening the Box of a Boxplot, American statistician , 42(4), 1988, pp. 257-262
Journal title
ISSN journal
00031305
Volume
42
Issue
4
Year of publication
1988
Pages
257 - 262
Database
ACNP
SICI code
Abstract
Variations of the boxplot are suggested, in which the sides of the box are used to convey information about the density of the values in a batch.The ease of computation by hand of the original boxplot had to be sacrificed, as the variations are computer-intensive.Still, the plots were implemented on a desktop personal computer (Apple Macintosh), in a way designed to keep their ease of computation by computer.The result is a dynamic display of densities and summaries.