box and whiskers plot

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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.

Pronunciation

En-us-box and whiskers plot.oga

Word forms

box and whiskers plot box and whiskers plots box and whisker plot

Synonyms

box and whisker diagram box plot boxplot
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