Thoughts on BoxPlots

Hi,

    
In Gnumeric, the attribute gnm:outliers="true" determines whether
      outliers are excluded from the main part of the boxplot. Gnumeric
      (and apparently Excel) are using the Tukey definition of
      Outliers. Since there are other Outlier definitions around I thin
      that perhaps instead of a true/False attribute we should be using
      an attribute that allows for name-spaced attribute values:Â
      draw:outliers="draw:none", draw:outliers="draw:tukey", etc.

    
I also note that there are other styles of boxplots, see
      https://vita.had.co.nz/papers/boxplots.pdf

    
Andreas

    

    
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