[R] about the 95%CI around the median...

[Simon Blomberg]

See ?fivenum in the stats package. If you just type 

stats::fivenum

you will get the code. The crucial calculations are in the last few
lines.

Simon.

On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 16:19 +0930, Fernando Marmolejo Ramos wrote:
> Dear people
> 
> I've learnt that by using the "boxplot.stats" command in the "grDevices" library
> I can get the 5-number summaries of a boxplot, plus other important information,
> like the confidence interval around the median.
> 
> I'm interested in knowing the actual formula to used in that package to
> calculate that confidence interval.
> 
> Can someone help me with this?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Fernando
> 
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