Visualization of skewed data: A tool in R;Visualización de datos sesgados: Una herramienta en R

Revista Colombiana de Estadistica

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 399-417

  Ospina, Raydonal ^a   Larangeiras, Antonio Marcos ^b   Frery, Alejandro C ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Boxplot; Exploratory data analysis; Skewed data; Violin plot; Visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923224533     PISSN: 01201751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15446/rce.v37n2spe.47945     Document Type: Article

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