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box-and-whiskers plot

box-and-whiskers plot is the alternative form of box and whiskers plot.

Meaning of box and whiskers plot

Noun

box and whiskers plot (plural box and whiskers plots)

  1. A graphical summary of a numerical data sample through five statistics — median, upper quartile, lower quartile, and upper extreme and lower extreme values — by depiction as a box with its edges at the quartile marks and an internal line at the median and with lines protruding from the box as far as the extremal values.
    Synonyms:
    box and whisker diagram, box plot, boxplot

Forms of box-and-whiskers plot

pluralbox-and-whiskers plots

Questions about box-and-whiskers plot

What is box-and-whiskers plot the alternative form of?
Box-and-whiskers plot is the alternative form of box and whiskers plot.

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