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Visual presentation of data by means of box plots

VUBIR (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)Published 1 January 2005
D.L. Massart, J. Smeyers–Verbeke, Xavier Capron, K. Schlesier
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TL;DR

This column explains how to construct box and whisker plots and how they can help you to learn more about your data.

Abstract

Data analysis should always start by (literally) looking at the data. An efficient way to do this is to use box and whisker plots, which, for short, are called box plots. All figures in this column are box plots and Figures 2 to 4 are box plots for real data sets. In this column we will explain how to construct them and how they can help you to learn more about your data