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In descriptive statistics, a box plot or boxplot is a method for demonstrating graphically the locality, spread and skewness groups of numerical data through their quartiles. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Box plotA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Extraction and Filtering of Electric Network Frequency Using Improved Matrix Pencil and Quadratic Box Plot-Empirical Wavelet TransformInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: WaldenThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Variations of Box PlotsCited 3,216 times
- Go sideways: Interquartile rangeA closely related topic
- Go sideways: QuartileA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A graphical summary of a numerical data sample through five statistics: median, lower quartile, upper quartile, and some indication of more extreme upper and lower values.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Variations of Box Plots
Violin Plots: A Box Plot-Density Trace Synergism
Peeking Inside the Black Box: Visualizing Statistical Learning With Plots of Individual Conditional Expectation
The Box Plot: A Simple Visual Method to Interpret Data
A novel gray forecasting model based on the box plot for small manufacturing data sets
The Box-Percentile Plot
COMPARING BOX PLOT DISTRIBUTIONS: A TEACHER’S REASONING
The box-plot: An exploratory analysis graph for biomedical publications
🆕 Influential since 2022
Extraction and Filtering of Electric Network Frequency Using Improved Matrix Pencil and Quadratic Box Plot-Empirical Wavelet Transform
Research on box plot knowledge in statistical education: a systematic review of the literature
The Integrated Violin-Box-Scatter (VBS) Plot to Visualize the Distribution of a Continuous Variable
Creation of a Combined Violin and Box Plot Using R
Smoke detection in dynamic scenes using box plot and fully convolutional network
📚 Books worth reading
WaldenHenry David Thoreau · 1854
Richard IIIWilliam Shakespeare · 1597
Anne of the IslandLucy Maud Montgomery · 1915
Lady SusanJane Austen · 1925
Poems verses words of rhymeJumpin Media Books · 2018
The story of the GadsbysRudyard Kipling · 1880
Spies of the kaiser plotting the downfall of EnglandWilliam Le Queux · 1909
You ChooseEric Braun, Alex Lopez · 2018
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🔗 Related topics
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- Quartile In statistics, quartiles are a type of quantiles which divide the number of data points into four parts, or quarters, of more-or-less equal size. The data…
- Seven-number summary In descriptive statistics, the seven-number summary is a collection of seven summary statistics, and is an extension of the five-number summary. There…
- Five-number summary The five-number summary is a set of descriptive statistics that provides information about a dataset. It consists of the five most important sample percentiles:…
- Functional boxplot In statistical graphics, the functional boxplot is an informative exploratory tool that has been proposed for visualizing functional data. Analogous to…
- Midhinge In statistics, the midhinge (MH) is the average of the first and third quartiles and is thus a measure of location. Equivalently, it is the 25% trimmed…
- Quartile coefficient of dispersion In descriptive statistics, the quartile coefficient of dispersion (QCD) is a normalized measure of dispersion and is used to make comparisons within and…
- Contour boxplot In statistical graphics and scientific visualization, the contour boxplot is an exploratory tool that has been proposed for visualizing ensembles of feature-set…