Category Archives: Statistics

How much statistics should one know ?

January 11, 2010 – 8:29 am

I just wrote an answer to this very interesting question on Stackoverflow. Now, as a disclaimer, I’m not an expert in statistics, but I did enough statistics to “know the beast”, or at least what are the dangers. I will rearrange my answer for this post, to address the more general case. The main issue [...]

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Box and Whiskers plot. How ?

March 22, 2008 – 7:56 pm

I am trying to produce box and whiskers plots. Actually, not the plot in itself, but the values for the boxes, the whiskers and so on. An example of box and whiskers is the following Browsing the net, I found that many sites just explain that a box plot is made according to the following [...]

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