box and whiskers plot

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box and whiskers plot

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Mathematics, Sciences, 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

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