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by blueflow 727 days ago
On second thought, this method makes the outer brackets / whiskers pretty much useless since their position is determined by the largest outliers, which is quite much random.
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That's not how they're drawn. Outliers (More than 1.5 times the interquartile range outside the 1st/3rd quartile) are plotted as dots beyond the whiskers. The whiskers go at Q1-1.5×IQR and Q3+1.5×IQR.
Better is! Look what i was replying to.