An adjusted boxplot for skewed distributions

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 5186-5201

  Hubert, M ^a   Vandervieren, E ^b  

^a Katholieke Universiteit Leuven   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELSEVIER (CO); GRAPHICAL TOOLS; OUTLIER DETECTION; SIMULATION RESULTS; SKEWED DISTRIBUTIONS; UNIMODAL;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 47749124251     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2007.11.008     Document Type: Article

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