See ?fivenum in the stats package. If you just type stats::fivenum
you will get the code. The crucial calculations are in the last few lines. Simon. On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 16:19 +0930, Fernando Marmolejo Ramos wrote: > Dear people > > I've learnt that by using the "boxplot.stats" command in the "grDevices" > library > I can get the 5-number summaries of a boxplot, plus other important > information, > like the confidence interval around the median. > > I'm interested in knowing the actual formula to used in that package to > calculate that confidence interval. > > Can someone help me with this? > > Cheers, > > Fernando > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Simon Blomberg, BSc (Hons), PhD, MAppStat. Lecturer and Consultant Statistician Faculty of Biological and Chemical Sciences The University of Queensland St. Lucia Queensland 4072 Australia Room 320 Goddard Building (8) T: +61 7 3365 2506 http://www.uq.edu.au/~uqsblomb email: S.Blomberg1_at_uq.edu.au Policies: 1. I will NOT analyse your data for you. 2. Your deadline is your problem. The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. - John Tukey. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
