The following example uses the flight delay data of the preceding example to illustrate how you can create box plots with various styles of box-and-whisker plots. The following statements create a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I help people communicate data clearly with graphs. Last week’s post, “A Histogram is NOT a Bar Chart ”, explained that bar charts ...

In the following example, a box plot is used to compare the delay times for airline flights during the Christmas holidays with the delay times prior to the holiday period. The following statements ...

When data is presented as a list of numbers, it can be difficult to interpret. If it is summarised in a diagram it is easier to draw conclusions and to compare with a different data set. A box plot is ...

Quartiles are the values that divide a data set into quarters: Put the values in order Divide the list into four equal parts The Quartiles are at the divisions The interquartile range shows the range ...