Spatial Statistics in Practice

Cheetsheet Box Map What is the map equalent to a box plot? Lets remind oursevles of what a box plot is. A box map (Anselin 1994) is the mapping counterpart of the idea behind a box plot. The point of departure is again a quantile map, more specifically, a quartile map. But the four categories are extended to six bins, to separately identify the lower and upper outliers. The definition of outliers is a function of a multiple of the inter-quartile range (IQR), the difference between the values for the 75 and 25 percentile....

December 9, 2021 · 8 min · Shoaib Burq