Box Plots

GPTKB entity

Statements (48)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf Statistical Chart
gptkbp:advantage Compares distributions
Identifies outliers
Summarizes data distribution concisely
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs Box-and-Whisker Plots
gptkbp:canBe gptkb:Vertical
Horizontal
gptkbp:category Descriptive Statistics
Data Visualization
Statistical Graphics
gptkbp:component gptkb:Box
Whiskers
Median line
Outlier markers
Quartile lines
gptkbp:contrastsWith Histograms
Dot Plots
Violin Plots
gptkbp:fiveNumberSummary Maximum
Minimum
First Quartile (Q1)
Median (Q2)
Third Quartile (Q3)
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Box Plots
gptkbp:introducedIn 1970s
gptkbp:inventedBy gptkb:John_Tukey
gptkbp:limitation Does not show multimodality
Limited detail on distribution shape
Not ideal for small datasets
gptkbp:outliersDefinedBy 1.5 times the interquartile range
gptkbp:shows gptkb:Outliers
Median
Maximum
Minimum
Interquartile Range
Quartiles
gptkbp:software gptkb:Python
gptkb:SPSS
gptkb:Excel
gptkb:Matlab
R
gptkbp:usedFor Displaying distribution of data
gptkbp:usedIn gptkb:Exploratory_Data_Analysis
gptkb:Data_Science
Statistics
gptkbp:visualizes Five-number summary
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Databricks_Data_Visualization
gptkbp:bfsLayer 8