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Definition of boxplot in English English dictionary
- Alternative spelling of box plot
- In descriptive statistics, a boxplot (also known as a box-and-whisker diagram or box and whisker plot or plot or candlestick chart) is a convenient way of graphically depicting groups of numerical data through their five-number summaries (the smallest observation, lower quartile (Q1), median, upper quartile (Q3), and largest observation). A boxplot also indicates which observations, if any, might be considered outliers. The boxplot was invented in 1977 by the American statistician John Tukey
- a visual display which is based on the 5-number summary draw a box between the quartiles This box demonstrates where the middle 50% of the data fall draw horizontal lines (or whiskers) that extend from the left and right sides of the box to the minimum and maximum, respectfully mark the median with a vertical line inside the box
- A graphical representation of a quality test that shows process variability distribution based on the mean, upper and lower specification limits in the form of a box
- A graphical representation of the dispersion of a sample