Last week’s post, “A Histogram is NOT a Bar Chart ”, explained that bar charts were used for comparing categorical variables and that histograms were used to show the distributions of binned ...

Visualization methods enhance our understanding of sample data and help us make comparisons across samples. Box plots are a simple but powerful graphing tool that can be used in place of histograms to ...

Bar charts and box plots are omnipresent in the scientific literature. They are typically used to visualize quantities associated with a set of items. Representing the data accurately, however, ...

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 ...

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 ...