Saturday, July 14, 2012

Box Plot


A box plot is a graphical display by an interval scale. The plot displays the distribution, central values and variability’s of the data. If any of the data is not within the designated box plot graph, then the information is known as outliners and is generally noted with an asterisk.

The example map, “Illustrates that there are positive outliers for three variables and negative outliers for one variable. The variable Females(%) does not have outliers at all. In addition to outliers, there can be positive or negative extremes extending the value of three interquartile ranges above the third quartile and below the first quartile. None of the analyzed variables has extremes. Eliminating outliers and extremes (for example, negative outliers or extremes for zero representing no data), can change radically the distribution of a variable.” Per the web citation.

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