[R] what is meaning of the bubbles in boxplots?

[Michael Knudsen]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:18 AM, Jie TANG<totangjie at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Can anyone tell me what the correct meaning of these bubbles?and how to
> remove it?

Have a look at the Wikipedia entry on box plots:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxplot

Why do you want to remove the bubbles? They are outliers and part of your data.

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