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Comment by blueflow

When i said "splitting", i meant it like my parent explained: Basically sorting your datasets and then splitting into quarters.

What you want to explain to me (IMHO to the wrong person) is the correct approach of calculating a mean and standard deviation and drawing the box from that. Lets stay with that (and thats what i said earlier in the thread)

After i wrote the post you replied to, i realized that the pure "splitting" method for box plots is nonsensical since the outer brackets interval is determined by the two most extreme values. They are too random to be meaningful. It does not make sense to draw a box plot from that.

parent blueflow 2 years ago

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