Description
Hello,
I came across a strange boxplot that is generated with the following data:
from pylab import boxplot, savefig
bp = boxplot([2.88497, 1.2143, 0.923436, 1.18696])
show()
The boxplot has the non-outlier max below the upper quartile. I plotted the same data using R's boxplot function and it does not exhibit the same behavior. MPL's boxplot is plotting the max value as an outlier (the '+' sign) but then get confused about how to plot the quartiles and non-outlier max. This can be fixed by changing the whisker length to something more than 1.5 (the default) so that the outlier is seen as the max.
I'm not sure if this is a bug or not, but the boxplot doesn't look right to me using the default settings for boxplot(). I am using matplotlib 1.1.0 on Mac OS X 10.7.4.
Thanks,
Jai