box and whiskers plot

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Alternative forms

• box and whisker plot

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Noun

box and whiskers plot (plural box and whiskers plots)

1. (statistics) 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

Translations

box plot — see box plot

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• box and whisker plots