box and whiskers plot
English
Alternative forms
- box and whisker plot
Noun
box and whiskers plot (plural box and whiskers plots)
- (statistics) A graphical summary of a numerical data sample through five statistics — median, upper quartile, lower quartile, and upper extreme and lower extreme values — by depiction as a box with its edges at the quartile marks and an internal line at the median and with lines protruding from the box as far as the extremal values.
Synonyms
- box and whisker diagram
- box plot, boxplot
Translations
box plot — see box plot