Definition:Box-and-Whisker Diagram/Box

Definition

Context: box-and-whisker diagram.

The box is a rectangle whose length is an indication of the interquartile range, divided in two by the median.

The breadth of this box is arbitrary.

Also see

• Definition:Box-and-Whisker Diagram/Whiskers

Sources

• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): box-and-whisker diagram
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): box-and-whisker diagram (boxplot)
• 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): box plot