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box and whisker plot

box and 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 and whisker plot

pluralbox and whisker plots

Questions about box and whisker plot

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

Words near box and whisker plot in the dictionary

  1. bowyers
  2. bowyery
  3. box
  4. box and cox
  5. box and lock
  6. box and whisker plot
  7. box and whisker plots
  8. box and whiskers plot
  9. box and whiskers plots
  10. box art
  11. box beam

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