A box with whiskers
Boxplot You will agree that it is a curious name for a graph. When thinking of its name it pops into my head a picture of a shoebox with whiskers, but actually, I think this chart seems more like the…
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Ciencia sin seso... locura doble
Píldoras sobre medicina basada en pruebas
Ciencia sin seso... locura doble
Píldoras sobre medicina basada en pruebas
Tag Median
Meat or fish?
Mean or median? This is the difficult dilemma that presents to me every time I go to have lunch to a good restaurant. I, honestly, like better meat, but as science textbooks say I’m an omnivorous animal, and I don’t…
Read MoreThe most wished statistical for a mother
Those of you who’re reading and who belong to the pediatricians’ gang already know what I am talking about: the 50th percentile. There’s no mother who doesn’t want her offspring to be above it in weight, height, intelligence and everything…
Read MoreVirtue is the happy medium between two extremes, but…
…where is the medium?. This question, which looks like a summer’s night delirium, must not be so easy to answer given that you have several ways to locate the middle or center of a data distribution. The matter is that…
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