[R] The R Graph Gallery {was boxplot statistics}

Martin Maechler maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
Fri Oct 7 09:21:30 CEST 2005


>>>>> "Romain" == Romain Francois <francoisromain at free.fr>
>>>>>     on Thu, 06 Oct 2005 23:23:12 +0200 writes:

    Romain> Selon bogdan romocea <br44114 at gmail.com>:
    >> A related comment - don't rely (too much) on boxplots. They show only
    >> a few things, which may be limiting in many cases and completely
    >> misleading in others. Here are a couple of suggestions for plots which
    >> you may find more useful than the standard box plots:
    >> - figure 3.27 from
    >> http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/RGraphics/chapter3.html
    >> - violin plots (see package vioplot) - density plots - histograms
    >> - box-percentile plots (bpplot from Hmisc)
    >> - quantile plots
    >> - if comparing 2 distributions, qq plots, quantile-difference plots,
    >> mean-difference plots etc.

    Romain> Hi,

    Romain> HDR (highest density regions) boxplots are interresting.
    Romain> See http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/RGraphGallery.php?graph=102
Let me take the opportunity to thank Romain
for setting up and maintaining the R Graph Gallery.

This is really a cool website for R users. 
He'd get my number one vote for "R website of the year"!

Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich




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