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cycomanic
on June 23, 2024
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I've stopped using box plots (2021)
A spike is not smooth (typically meaning continuous in the variable and its first derivative), which was one of the conditions.
timy2shoes
on June 23, 2024
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Then take a Cauchy or a t-distribution. Basically anything with a longer tail than exp(x^2). The Gaussian summary will be misleading because of the tails.
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