2月 26

[荐]box plots与BoxPlotR

box plots

BoxPlotR

This application allows users to generate customized box plots in a number of variants based on their data. A data matrix can be uploaded as a file or pasted into the application. Basic box plots are generated based on the data and can be modified to include additional information. Additional features become available when checking that option. Information about sample sizes can be represented by the width of each box where the widths are proportional to the square roots of the number of observations n. Notches can be added to the boxes. These are defined as +/-1.58*IQR/sqrt(n) which gives roughly 95% confidence that two medians are different. It is also possible to define the whiskers based on the ideas of Spear and Tukey. Additional options of data visualization (violin and bean plots) reveal more information about the underlying data distribution. Plots can be labeled, customized (colors, dimensions, orientation) and exported as eps, pdf and svg files.……【阅读全文】

2月 13

箱线图

箱线图(Boxplot)也称箱须图(Box-whisker Plot),是利用数据中的五个统计量:最小值、第一四分位数、中位数、第三四分位数与最大值来描述数据的一种方法。它也可以粗略地看出数据是否具有有对称性,分布的离散程度等信息;特别适用于对几个样本的比较。

A boxplot is a way of summarizing a set of data measured on an interval scale. It is often used in exploratory data analysis. It is a type of graph which is used to show the shape of the distribution, its central value, and variability. The picture produced consists of the most extreme values in the data set (maximum and minimum values), the lower and upper quartiles, and the median.

可以通过箱线图的绘制过程来了解箱线图的意义:
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