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What you say is technically correct, but in the sense where you can put rat poison in One of those ceramic cookie jars they sell in houseware shops. There is no
by kamma4434 2y ago
What you say is technically correct, but in the sense where you can put rat poison in One of those ceramic cookie jars they sell in houseware shops. There is nothing wrong in doing it, but it may lead to interesting failure modes Because someone can have implicit assumptions about what’s in there.
- afiori 2y agoQuartiles are relevant for almost any distribution
- crazygringo 2y agoIf by "almost any" you mean "unimodal". Quartiles are not relevant, i.e. can be highly misleading, for a bimodal distribution or beyond...
- afiori 2y agothey are misleading if you assume unimodality, but are always relevant. If you care about how many modes there are then likely you would prefer deciles or centiles. But even in the first image of the article the fact that two quartiles are close together means that there some density peak around there. I agree with the author that box plots are not good plots, but quartiles/deciles/medians are useful even for multimodal distributions