re: st: Boxplot with median *and* mean not possible?

[David Airey <david.airey@vanderbilt.edu>]

In Data Desk, the shaded intervals in boxplots for comparing medians 
are placed symmetrically around the median at

median +/- 1.58(high hinge - low hinge)/(n)^0.5,

A complete discussion of boxplots and the derivation of the shaded 
region is found in Chapter 3 in Velleman and Hoaglin (1981) 
Applications, Basics, and Computing of Exploratory Data Analysis. 
Boston: Duxbury Press.

-Dave

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