box and whiskers plot (English, noun)
expansion: box and whiskers plot (plural box and whiskers plots)
Senses:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: 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.
Forms:
form: box and whiskers plots
tags: plural
form: box and whisker plot
tags: alternative