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You can see which has the largest spread of data.... Where the extreme values lie... The bigger the box the wider the spread of half of the data... and vice versa
A basic summary of data or a simple comparison of a few sets of data.A basic summary of data or a simple comparison of a few sets of data.A basic summary of data or a simple comparison of a few sets of data.A basic summary of data or a simple comparison of a few sets of data.
You can determine differences in:the median, a measure of central tendency;the inter quartile range (IQR). This is a measure of the spread of data around the median;skewness;number of outliers.
No. Four of the data elements must be identical.
Because you can compare the values easily, for instance, you can compare the highest and lowest value and compare this to the mean, does the highest and lowest value differ greatly from the mean? Then you know the correlation is a bit unpredictable, you can also use this to compare two box plots, putting them together you can see through the median and quartile range the best way to do something, etc.
You can see which has the largest spread of data.... Where the extreme values lie... The bigger the box the wider the spread of half of the data... and vice versa
Compare the shape,center,and spread of the data in the box plots with the data for stores A and B in the two box plots in example 2.
A basic summary of data or a simple comparison of a few sets of data.A basic summary of data or a simple comparison of a few sets of data.A basic summary of data or a simple comparison of a few sets of data.A basic summary of data or a simple comparison of a few sets of data.
by looking at it and seeing the difference
Parallel box and whisker plots are regular box and whisker plots, but drawn "one-above-the other" on the piece of paper. To enable to do this easily, draw an x-axis which is big enough for the largest value in the data, and small enough for the smallest value in the data (in the entire collection of data). Plot each box-and-whisker diagram below each other.
You can determine differences in:the median, a measure of central tendency;the inter quartile range (IQR). This is a measure of the spread of data around the median;skewness;number of outliers.
It's eaiser to see the outlier ( odd number) out of the data.
Because you can compare the values easily, for instance, you can compare the highest and lowest value and compare this to the mean, does the highest and lowest value differ greatly from the mean? Then you know the correlation is a bit unpredictable, you can also use this to compare two box plots, putting them together you can see through the median and quartile range the best way to do something, etc.
No. Four of the data elements must be identical.
What are the minimum, lower quartile, median, upper quartile and maximum?What the range and interquartile range are.whether the data ore positvely or negatively skewed.How two (or more) data sets compare in terms of the "average" and spread.
Box-and-whisker plots highlight central values in a set of data. In order to construct a box-and-whisker plot, the first step is to order your data numerically and find the median value.
Box and whisker plots are used to give a visual indication of where quartiles and highest/lowest values fall, so they're useful for visually comparing various sets of data. The "whisker" on the left extends to the lowest value in the data range (the left-most point). The first edge of the "box" indicates the lower quartile, the middle line in the box represents the median quartile, and the upper edge of the box represents the 3rd quartile. The "whisker" on the right extends to the highest value in the data set. Clearly when using many box and whisker plots, and comparing them to each other, it helps greatly if you use the same scale on each plot. Sometimes it may be decided that your lowest/highest data values are "outliers" (anomalous results), in which case they are still included in the box and whisker plot, but they should be demarcated by a hollow circle wherever the outlier is deemed to be.