Fig. 5

Comparison of results of present data cleaning procedures applied to the current and an independent data set. This figure exhibits the results of applying the present data cleaning procedures applied to the current data and another equivalent data set reported in [12]. For both data sets we formed leaf length class intervals covering the extent of observed values, with the extension of each class interval set at 50 mm. The first length class interval is labeled by 1 and represents the set of leaf length lying within interval 0 < l(t) ≤ 50. Class 2 associates to the interval 50 < l(t) ≤ 100 and so one (horizontal axis). For each set of replicates associated to a given length in a class interval we obtained the percentage of removed inconsistencies, then for each class interval we obtained the average of these percentages (vertical axis). For all of the considered length class intervals we observed relatively greater average percentages of data inconsistencies in the present crude data