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- From: zoubeidi@masg1.epfl.ch (Toufik Zoubeidi)
- Newsgroups: sci.math.stat
- Subject: Quartiles in S-plus
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.170005@masg1.epfl.ch>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 16:00:05 GMT
- Sender: news@sicsun.epfl.ch
- Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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- Hello,
-
- In preparing a class example we found out that in computing quartiles
- S-plus uses different methods under different commands. The method
- used in the commands "summary" or "quantile" is different from the
- one used to compute quartiles for a boxplot in the command "boxplot".
- We know which method is used in each case. Does anyone know the reason
- for this difference.
-
- Below is the illustration of this
-
- >X (The data)
-
- 24 11 107 18 29 49 94 12 16 22 141 18 21 13 11
-
- >summary(X)
-
- Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max.
- 11 14.5 21 39.07 39 141
-
- >A <- boxplot(X, plot=F)
- >A
-
- $stats:
- [,1]
- [1,] 94
- [2,] 49 <-- 3rd Qu.
- [3,] 21
- [4,] 13 <-- 1st Qu.
- [5,] 11
-
- $n:
- [1] 15
-
-
- $out:
- [1] 107 141 <-- If the quartiles computed in "summary" were used
- then 94 will also be out.
-
- $group:
- [1] 1 1
-
- Bye, Toufik.
-
-