A generalized boxplot for skewed and heavy-tailed distributions

被引：36

作者：

Bruffaerts, Christopher ^{[1
]}

Verardi, Vincenzo ^{[1
,2
]}

Vermandele, Catherine ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Libre Bruxelles, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium

[2] Univ Namur, B-5000 Namur, Belgium

来源：

STATISTICS & PROBABILITY LETTERS | 2014年 / 95卷

关键词：

Generalized boxplot; Standard boxplot; Adjusted boxplot; Tukey g-and-h distribution;

D O I：

10.1016/j.spl.2014.08.016

中图分类号：

O21 [概率论与数理统计]; C8 [统计学];

学科分类号：

020208 ; 070103 ; 0714 ;

摘要：

We define a new boxplot that can deal with skewed and/or heavy-tailed distributions and possible outliers. The methodology relies on a rank-preserving transformation that allows to fit a so-called Tukey g-and-h distribution. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：110 / 117

页数：8