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Box Plots

Histograms are very useful for summarizing numeric data in that they show a rough distribution of values. An alternative that is often used in conjunction with histograms is box plots. A box plot is composed of a box, an inner line bisecting the box, whiskers that extend to either side of the box, and outliers:

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