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Interpret Box And Whisker Plot. Interpreting the box and whisker plot results. The whiskers extend from either side of the box. It is also used for descriptive data interpretation. First a data set is a collection of numbers that relate to a specific topic.
So if you have test results somewhere in the lower whisker you may need to study more. One wicked awesome thing about box plots is that they contain every measure of central tendency in a neat little package. Think of the type of data you might use a histogram with and the box-and-whisker or box plot for short could probably be useful. The features of each distribution are used to determine whether the box-and-whisker plot accurately represents the data. For example the following boxplot of the heights of students shows that the median height is 69. The box-and-whisker plot on the left represents.
The box-and-whisker plot on the left represents.
One wicked awesome thing about box plots is that they contain every measure of central tendency in a neat little package. Measures of spread include the interquartile range and the mean of the data set. So if you have test results somewhere in the lower whisker you may need to study more. The whiskers represent the ranges for the bottom 25 and the top 25 of the data values excluding outliers. The second quartile Q2 sits in. A boxplot also called a box and whisker plot is a way to show the spread and centers of a data set.