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box and whiskers plot

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.98 in modern English

Syllables
box and whisker-s -plot
IPA
40
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
3
Syllables
16
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Inflected Forms

box and whiskers plots (plural) box and whisker plot (alternative)

Synonyms

box and whisker diagram box plot boxplot

Questions

What does box and whiskers plot mean?
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.

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