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Book about interpretable machine learning
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Correct the definition of boxplot whiskers and outliers #336

Closed jtr13 closed 2 years ago

jtr13 commented 2 years ago

The original formulation included dividing the IQR by sqrt(n) which is not how whisker lengths are calculated. (It's part of the formula for notched boxplots.)

christophM commented 2 years ago

That's much better, thanks!