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A box and whisker plot provides a visual representation of the distribution of data through key values: - The median separates the data set in half. Quartiles (Q1 and Q3) divide data into four equal parts. - Q1 separates the bottom 25% of data and Q3 separates the top 25%. The interquartile range (IQR) measures spread and is calculated as Q3 - Q1. - Outliers are data points 1.5 times the IQR above Q3 or below Q1, indicating extreme or unusual values.

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Edsc 304 Webercise

A box and whisker plot provides a visual representation of the distribution of data through key values: - The median separates the data set in half. Quartiles (Q1 and Q3) divide data into four equal parts. - Q1 separates the bottom 25% of data and Q3 separates the top 25%. The interquartile range (IQR) measures spread and is calculated as Q3 - Q1. - Outliers are data points 1.5 times the IQR above Q3 or below Q1, indicating extreme or unusual values.

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Box and Whisker Plots

The Median https://www.varsitytutors.com/hotmath/hotmath_help/topics/median.html


What is the median of a data set?
Why must we order the data from
least to greatest?
How do we account for data sets with
an even number of points?
Quartiles https://www.varsitytutors.com/hotmath/hotmath_help/topics/quartiles.html
Quartile 1 separates what percentage
of the ranked data?
Which has a greater value, Q1 or Q3?
Contrast the processes of finding the
quartiles of a data set with an even
number of points versus an odd
number of points.
Predict where Q2 will lie.
IQR and Outliers http://www.purplemath.com/modules/boxwhisk3.htm
How do we calculate the interquartile
range?
Describe how far a data point must
be from Q1 or Q3 to be considered an
outlier.
Defend this classification of outliers.
Reading Box Plots http://www.imathas.com/stattools/boxplot.html
Visit the above link. Enter some reasonable data points and click “Draw Here”. Right click (Ctrl+Click on Mac) on the resulting
image and save it to your computer. Open the image with a basic image editor such as Preview or Microsoft Paint. Using a
pencil, brush, or textbox tool, label the following on the image:
Minimum, Maximum, Median, Q1, Q3.
Save the newly labeled image. Insert the labeled image in the blank table cell below.

Interpreting Box Plots http://www.alcula.com/calculators/statistics/box-plot/


Visit http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/Datafiles/RainForest.html. Find the ages of the Gawimasi Village men in the second column.
Enter these villagers’ ages into the above linked Alcula Box Plot Calculator (separated by commas).
What is the median age of the
villager men? Q1? Q3? IQR?
As seen in the Rain Forest data table
above, the youngest villager boy is 3
years old. Argue whether or not he
should be considered an outlier in
spite of the definition we learned
previously.

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