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Box-and-Whisker Plot

A visual display of the five number summary. The box-and-whisker plot is a simplified boxplot taught to beginners . It does not show outliers. The whiskers extending all the way to the minimum and maximum values regardless of how far out they may be.

 

 

 

 

See also

First quartile, median, third quartile, stemplot

 


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Mathwords: Terms and Formulas from Algebra I to Calculus
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