You need the median, which is the line inside the box, the lower quartile and the upper quartile which are the left and right sides of the box.
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It is a simple summary of 5 key statistics.
There are several differences but (in my view) the main one is that the stem and leaf retains all the information about the observed data (except the order in which the observations were recorded). The box and whiskers uses only five summary statistics.
The lower quartile is the line that represents the left-hand edge of the "box", in the box and whisker plot.
There can be no sensible box-and-whiskers plot for just one number - no matter how large it is.There can be no sensible box-and-whiskers plot for just one number - no matter how large it is.There can be no sensible box-and-whiskers plot for just one number - no matter how large it is.There can be no sensible box-and-whiskers plot for just one number - no matter how large it is.
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