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This document discusses box plots, including their meaning, construction steps, an example, and merits and demerits. It defines the key parts of a box plot as the minimum, maximum, lower quartile, median, and upper quartile. It provides the steps to construct a box plot using sample data of raisin weights, drawing the corresponding box plot as an example. Some merits listed are that box plots summarize variation and allow comparison of distributions, while demerits include hiding other distribution features and difficulties locating the mean.

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Mbeya University of Science and Tecnology

This document discusses box plots, including their meaning, construction steps, an example, and merits and demerits. It defines the key parts of a box plot as the minimum, maximum, lower quartile, median, and upper quartile. It provides the steps to construct a box plot using sample data of raisin weights, drawing the corresponding box plot as an example. Some merits listed are that box plots summarize variation and allow comparison of distributions, while demerits include hiding other distribution features and difficulties locating the mean.

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MBEYA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECNOLOGY

COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION


DERPARTMENT OF MEDICAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
COURSE: BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
GROUP ASSIGNMENT
NAME REG NO. SIGNNATURE
GEORGE ELISHA NYARUGEZI 2020-04-14338
RAMADHANI MRISHO 2020-04-14682
ANTHON GASTON KATUMBA 2020-04-14114
BOX PLOT
CONTENTS
1.Meaning of box plot
2.Steps of construction
3.Sample data
4.Drawings
5.Merits and demerits of box plot
MEANING OF BOX PLOT
Box plot is a chart that shows data from a five-
number summary including one of the measures
of central tendency .It is also known as box and
whisker plot
Box plot has five parts that are :
I.
Minimum-minimum value of given dataset
II.
Maximum- maximum value of given dataset
III.
lower quartile-median of lower half of dataset
IV.Upper quartile- median of upper half of
dataset
V. Median(middle quartile)-middle value of
dataset which divides given dataset into two
equal parts

Diagram above shows parts of box plot


STEPS OF CONSTRUCTION OF BOX PLOT
Steps of construction of box plot can be grouped
into two sections
I. Finding five-number summary.
II. Making box plot.

Finding five-number summary


a)Order the data from the smallest to the
largest
b) Find the median
c)Find the quartiles
1.Upper quartile
2.Lower quartile
d)complete the five number summary by finding
the maximum and minimum values

Making the box plot


a)Scale and label an axis that fits the five-
number summary
b) Draw a box from the Q1 to Q2 with the
vertical line through the median
c)Draw the whisker from the Q1 to the
minimum value and from Q3 to maximum
value ,this mark the end of construction
NB: Labelling of final product(box plot) is not
necessary

DATA SAMPLE
Consider a sample of 10 boxes of raisins having
the following weights (in grams):
25 ,28,29,29,30,34,35,35,37,38

DRAWING OF BOX PLOT


Steps:
I. Arrangement of data orderly from smallest to
largest ;25 ,28,29,29,30,34,35,35,37,38.
II. Finding a median
From above data median is the mean of the
middle two numbers
30+34
median= 2 =32
III. Finding quartiles
Divide the dataset into two equal parts
25,28,29,29,30 and 34,35,35,37,38
Lower quartile-median of lower half =29
Upper quartile-median of upper half=35

IV. From above dataset maximum and minimum


values will be obtained
Maximum value =38
Minimum value=25

Box plot of 10 boxes of raisins

MERITS OF BOX PLOT


I. Summarizes variation in large datasets visually
II. Compares multiple distributions
III. Simple to sketch
IV. Exact values not retained

DEMERITS OFBOX PLATE


1)Hides the multimodality and other
features of distribution
2)Mean often difficult to locate
3)Outlier calculation too rigid -outliers may
be industry-based or case by case

1.

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