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Dear list members, Can anyone tell me how the notches in boxplot(Y~X,notch=T) are calculated? What do these notches represent exactly? I?d suppose they are Conficence Intervals for the median, but I?ve also been told they might show Least Significant Difference (LSD) equivalents. I would very much appreciate any help from you. Best regards Chris.

A function I've been using for a while returned a surprising [to me, given the data] error recently: Error in plot.window(xlim, ylim, log, asp, ...) : Logarithmic axis must have positive limits After some digging I realized what was going on: x <- c(10460.97, 10808.67, 29499.98, 1, 35818.62, 48535.59, 1, 1, 42512.1, 1627.39, 1, 7571.06, 21479.69, 25, 1, 16143.85, 12736.96,

Dear List, I'd like to make boxplots of a large number of observations (+/- 20.000), which are distributed log-normal and right skewed. The problem is that with standard boxplots a too large number of observations are displayed as outliers. I also tried to display the log of the observations, but even then there are to may outliers to my taste. So I'd like to change the standard IQR box

PR #7690 points out that if the confidence intervals (+/-1.58 IQR/sqrt(n)) in a boxplot with notch=TRUE are larger than the hinges -- which is most likely to happen for small n and asymmetric distributions -- the resulting plot is ugly, e.g.: set.seed(1001) npts <- 5 X <- rnorm(2*npts,rep(3:4,each=npts),sd=1) f <- factor(rep(1:2,each=npts)) boxplot(X~f) boxplot(X~f,notch=TRUE) I can

Sorry to repost this, but it looks like it's getting buried in r-help (originally posted October 5: my experience says that if it hasn't been answered by then it won't be). I wouldn't bother, but I'm worried that r-devel might be better, *and* a previous e-mail of mine on the subject in January also seemed to get buried. Synopsis: boxplot notches look weird when notches are

Hi List, Just wondering where the documentation exists for the statistics which makeup the bwplot. I'm guessing that if R is like similar products that the graph is constructed as The median is the filled circle. The box surrounding the filled circle depicts the 25th and 75th quartile. The range of values is given by the dotted lines (?whiskers?) outside of each box, and possible

How are the lower/upper whiskers defined in the default version of boxplot {graphics}? I tried help(boxplot) and searching www.rseek.org, but I was unable to determine an absolute answer. I checked out the definition of boxplot according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_plot), but it also had several approaches listed for how the whiskers could be determined, so I'm just

Hi all, One quick question: How to put values of 25 and 75 percentile on boxplot? Thanks in advance. Nianqing Xiao, Ph.D NCI Center for Bioinformatics, NIH SAIC/Advanced Systems Group > 6116 EXECUTIVE BLVD 4026J > MSC 8335 > BETHESDA MD 20852 Phone: 301-451-6357 Fax: 301-480-4222 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list --

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I noticed that boxplot computes a 95% CI for the median by using median +/- 1.58*IQR./sqrt(n) Where does the 1.58 constant come from? -- Rick White Statistical Consultant U.B.C. Vancouver B.C. Canada rick at stat.ubc.ca -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send

I really like the ease of use with the boxplot command in R. I would rather have a boxplot that shows the average value and the standard deviation then the median value and the quartiles. Is there a way to do this? Chad Junkermeier, Graduate Student Dept. of Physics West Virginia University PO Box 6315 210 Hodges Hall Morgantown WV 26506-6315 phone: (304) 293-3442 ext. 1430 fax: (304)

Hello, does somebody know in a boxplot, what does each element in the boxplot represent? 1. lines at the extremes of the dotted lines? 2. Extremes of the boxes 3. Black line in the middle of the box? 4. notches? Thank you Felipe Parra [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Is there a way to modify the choice of notch size [1] in R's boxplot routine from outlining a 5% significance region, to say 1% or lower? Thanks, Alex [1] McGill, Tukey, and Larsen. "Variations of Box Plots", The American Statistician, Vol. 32, No. 1, 12-16.

Hi I'm getting a weird result when I try to switch from a normal box plot to a notched one. The ends of the box fold down toward the median giving a horned appearance. Is just the sample itself? It is small, but the un-notched plot looks okay. Anyway to fix this? e7=as.vector(c(234,37,98,116,47)) boxplot(e7, plot=TRUE, notch=TRUE) Thanks very much.

Another naive stats question. I'm trying to better understand what boxplots are telling me. I think what I see is the median and the boundaries of the 1st and 3rd quartiles. The whiskers represent the range of the data unless there are points which are outside "range" (default: 1.5) times the distance from the median to that quartile. Is that right? I've read the

Dear guRus, I want to do some boxplots, but the median sould appear in another line-thickness and another color. I do not know, what to do in order to realise my wishes. Sorry for that question, but I am new to R. cheers steph -- Linux: the operating system with a CLUE... Command Line User Environment. -------------------------------------- Stephan Holl GnuPG Key-ID: 11946A09 ICQ#

For boxplot(), is it possible to pass in a parameter to change the default way that the 1st and 3rd quartiles are computed? (specifically, I'd like to use type 6 described in the quantile function). Also, what are the options for how outliers are computed, and how can one change them? Thank you [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi, I have data that looks like this: ASA1 ASA2 C1_C2 C M 9.0225 S S 2.4315 M C 3.4894 M S 4.5282 C M 1.3183 C S 1.3735 S C 1.0488 S M 7.948 M C 4.5827 I need to plot Boxplots for a given ASA1 (either C,S, or M) with respect to C1_C2. However, instead of one boxplot I want to plot

Dear all, I am trying to add error bars on a boxplot but have encountered an error as indicated below. Is there a package I need to install or a library I have to load before this goes please. Thanks for any idea. Ogbos x<-replicate(20,rnorm(50)) boxplot(x,notch=TRUE,main="Notched boxplot with error bars") error.bars(x,add=TRUE) Error: could not find function "error.bars"

Dear all, I am a total beginner in R, so sorry if this is the wrong place. I am using R 2.10.1 on a Mac (Mac OS 10.6.2). I have this small dataset : growth sugar 75 C 72 C 73 C 61 F 67 F 64 F 62 S 63 S I have no problem reading the table, or getting the summary, but if I try boxplot(growth~sugar, ylab="growth", xlab="sugar", data=Dataset), I have the following error :