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

Jim Lemon jim at bitwrit.com.au
Mon Jul 20 13:25:33 CEST 2009


Jie TANG wrote:
> Hi ,everyone ,
>   I draw some boxplot figure with the command "boxplot".But in the
> figure,there are some bubbles at the top part of the figure.
>
>  Can anyone tell me what the correct meaning of these bubbles?and how to
> remove it?
>   
Hi Jie,
At a wild guess, the "bubbles" may be outliers. Have you checked for any 
values in your data that are much larger than all the rest?

Jim




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