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2009 Jul 12
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box and whisker (PR#13821)
In a Box and Whisker plot, I thought that when there are outliers both abov= e and below the whiskers, then the whiskers should both be the same length = (plus or minus 1.5 times the inter-quartile range). If you look at the plot for SilwoodWeather on p.155 of The R Book you will = see that for November (month =3D 11) the upper whisker is shorter than the = lower, while for other months with outliers both above and below, the lines= are the same lengths. When there are no outliers, then of course the maximum and minimum values r= esult in w...