Introductory Statistics 2e: 2.4 Box Plots

Use a box plot to compare centres and spreads without hiding the sample size.

How to study this source

• What can a small dataset tell me, and what can it not?

  commentary2.4 Box Plots

  Use a box plot to compare centres and spreads without hiding the sample size.

Ideas and questions

Read background definitions when a term blocks the argument. Then return to the source and reconstruct its claim in your own words.

Read alongside, read against

• Statistics: experimental design

  Barbara Illowsky · Susan Dean. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• Introductory Statistics 2e: 2.3 Measures of the Location of the Data

  Barbara Illowsky · Susan Dean. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• Introductory Statistics 2e: 9.2 Outcomes and the Type I and Type II Errors

  Barbara Illowsky · Susan Dean. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• Introductory Statistics 2e: 12.2 Scatter Plots

  Barbara Illowsky · Susan Dean. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.