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, [email protected] wrote:
> Von: Jean Brefort [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Gesendet: Montag, 24. Oktober 2011 10:42
> An: Kuehtreiber Hannes
> Cc: [email protected]
> Betreff: Re: outlieres in boxplots
> 
> The answer to your question is at
> http://itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section3/boxplot.htm
> 
> Regards,
> Jean
> 
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