A generalized boxplot for skewed and heavy-tailed distributions

Christopher Bruffaerts, Vincenzo Verardi and Catherine Vermandele

Statistics & Probability Letters, 2014, vol. 95, issue C, 110-117

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Generalized boxplot; Standard boxplot; Adjusted boxplot; Tukey g-and-h distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2014.08.016

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