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> The only way to use it is to recover the five parameters from it, and then stop looking at it. ...which is its intended use case since Tukey invented it as a
by seanhunter 2y ago
> The only way to use it is to recover the five parameters from it, and then stop looking at it.
...which is its intended use case since Tukey invented it as a way of visualising the "5 number summary". I think part of his criteria were that it should be easy to make by hand which is clearly no longer a consideration so there are plenty of reasons to just do something else most of the time these days.