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I’ve Stopped Using Box Plots. Should You? | Nightingale
nightingaledvs.com/ive-stopped-... #dataviz #StatSky I agree with much of what is written in the post. The box of the boxplot is intuitive, the whiskers not so much. 1/

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I like the two alternatives because they cover the entire distribution with one shape 👇 One may not even need different color shading or different width because it should be clear that shorter rectangulars imply denser distributions of observations

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