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A boxplot for circular data

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  • Davide Buttarazzi
  • Giuseppe Pandolfo
  • Giovanni C. Porzio

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The box‐and‐whiskers plot is an extraordinary graphical tool that provides a quick visual summary of an observed distribution. In spite of its many extensions, a really suitable boxplot to display circular data is not yet available. Thanks to its simplicity and strong visual impact, such a tool would be especially useful in all fields where circular measures arise: biometrics, astronomy, environmetrics, Earth sciences, to cite just a few. For this reason, in line with Tukey's original idea, a Tukey‐like circular boxplot is introduced. Several simulated and real datasets arising in biology are used to illustrate the proposed graphical tool.

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  • Davide Buttarazzi & Giuseppe Pandolfo & Giovanni C. Porzio, 2018. "A boxplot for circular data," Biometrics, The International Biometric Society, vol. 74(4), pages 1492-1501, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:biomet:v:74:y:2018:i:4:p:1492-1501
    DOI: 10.1111/biom.12889
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    2. Giuseppe Pandolfo & Davy Paindaveine & Giovanni Porzio, 2017. "Distance-based Depths for Directional Data," Working Papers ECARES ECARES 2017-35, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
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