At 07:35 PM 8/25/01 +, EugeneGall wrote:
> The answer hinges only on a trivial choice made by Tukey
>when he described the boxplot. Incidentally, Tufte criticized the lack of
>information in the box width in the Tukey boxplot and proposed an alternative.
i don't think this is relevant to t
conceptually yes ... since, some items are clearly more important than
others ...
empirically ... since this has been explored many times ... back in the 70s
and 80s ... it seems to have no impact on rel and val ...
who decides? well, one way is to say ... experts ... have them rate items
in
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>the only purpose it can serve ... and i am not saying this is important .
>is to know that the median is part of a boxplot ... just like you might
>want them to identify what the | are at the ends ... the hinges ... just as
>you might want them to kno
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<< whether the item you talk about rises to the level of being important
enough ... i am not sure ... certainly, in the overall scheme of things ...
IF it is included ... it would have to be considered to
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the only purpose it can serve ... and i am not saying this is important ...
is to know that the median is part of a boxplot ... just like you might
want them to identify what the | are at the ends ... the hinges ... just as
you might want them to know that the whisker has 25% in it ... at each
Some of the MCAS stats and probability questions were tough but fair. I
disagreed vehemently with one question:
Question 39 on the 10th grade Math 2001 test.
It showed a Tukey boxplot and asked whether the graph represented a mean and
range or a median and range.
Now, this question will do one
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