Re: st: Box and whiskers graph

[Marcello Pagano <Pagano@hsph.harvard.edu>]

Not to detract from John Tukey's work at all, but inventor, even in 
quotes, is too strong a word.  For the record, see,

Spear, M. E. Charting Statistics, New York:Mc Graw-Hill, 1952,

and, as Nick Cox has pointed out to me, they also appeared even earlier in,

Crowe, P.R., The analysis of rainfall probability. A graphical method 
and its application to European data.  Scottish Geographical Magazine, 
1933, 49: 73-91.

m.p.



Elizabeth Allred wrote:


> John Tukey is the "inventor" of box and whisker plots. See Chapter 2 in:
> John W. Tukey
> Exploratory Data Analysis
> Addison-Wesley Publishing Company
> Reading, MA
> 1977
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu 
> > [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of 
> > Wallace, John
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 8:38 PM
> > To: 'statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu'
> > Subject: RE: st: Box and whiskers graph
> >
> >
> > One reference for the construction is J.L Devore, Probability 
> > and Statistics. 1995. 4th Edition. Duxbury Press, Boston MA.  
> > I came across it as the "Box plot Rule" in a biotech industry 
> > publication (Panvera, now defunct I believe).  It was part of 
> > a discussion of methods for detecting and handling outliers in data.

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