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What is a box plot?
Not sure about a box plot, but a box and whisker plot is a representation of statistical data for one variable (at a time).It consists of a rectangular shape, the "box", plotted against a horizontal value axis. The left side of the box is the lower quartile of the data and the right side is the upper quartile. The median divides the box.Extending out from both sides of the box are lines, the "whiskers", that reach to the minimum and maximum values.So, a box and whisker plot is defined byminumum,lower quartile (Q1),median (Q2),upper quartile (Q3), andmaximum.If there are outliers, they are usually excluded from the box and whiskers plot and are marked up separately as crosses.
Data in a box-and whisker plot?
The [vertical] sides of the box go from the Lower Quartile to the Upper Quartile. The Median is drawn parallel to these sides. The whiskers stretch out from half-way up the sides of the box to the minimum and the maximum.
In a box-and-whisker plot what fraction of the data is greater than the first quartile?
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How do you use a box and whisker plot?
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.
What percentage of the data values represented on a box plot falls between the lower quartile and the upper quartile?
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