Timeline for What's the history of box plots, and how did the "box and whiskers" design evolve?
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Aug 25, 2021 at 12:09 | comment | added | Single Malt | What I found most useful is “… 1.5 IQR rule of thumb emerged only after much experimentation. It has mutated in some hands to a hard rule for deleting data points, which was never Tukey's intent”. Not only does this show the origin of the 1.5 magic number (useful to know and bizarrely not mentioned often when it is taught) but it provides practical application of knowing that it does have some empirical rationale but it would be a mistake to apply it too rigidly. | |
Oct 11, 2018 at 19:06 | vote | accept | Silverfish | ||
Oct 10, 2018 at 18:12 | history | bounty ended | gung - Reinstate Monica | ||
Oct 3, 2018 at 17:53 | history | edited | Nick Cox | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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Oct 1, 2018 at 16:50 | comment | added | Nick Cox | Thanks! if possession of lines or other markers indicating median and quartiles defines a box, then there were box plots long before Tukey named them, and I am confident that he never claimed otherwise. However, many miniature histories in textbooks and elsewhere seem emphatic on the point; mostly, that's a just a meme repeated without evidence like the story that lemmings jump off cliffs as collective suicide. Many of the alternatives to box plots don't even show a box in any sense, so then the field is wide open to include any graphical representation of univariate distributions. | |
Oct 1, 2018 at 16:32 | comment | added | Silverfish | Really appreciate this answer, thanks Nick - looking forward to the additions about the alternatives and hybrids. I think it is probably fair to say "box plots "and friends" form a "family" of data visualisations, though I don't know what that family should be called | |
Sep 30, 2018 at 7:53 | comment | added | Nick Cox | I have other material on box-percentile plots, mountain plots and other hybrid forms, to be added later. | |
Sep 30, 2018 at 7:48 | history | answered | Nick Cox | CC BY-SA 4.0 |