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box-whisker plot

box-whisker 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-whisker plot

pluralbox-whisker plots

Questions about box-whisker plot

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

Words near box-whisker plot in the dictionary

  1. box-to-box midfielders
  2. box-tree
  3. box-trees
  4. box-turtle
  5. box-turtles
  6. box-whisker plot
  7. box-whiskers plot
  8. boxa
  9. boxable
  10. Boxador
  11. Boxadors

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