How significant is a boxplot outlier?

Journal of Statistics Education

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Dawson, Robert ^a  

^a SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boxplot; Outlier; Significance; Simulation; Spreadsheet

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960873280     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10691898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10691898.2011.11889610     Document Type: Article

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