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A graphical display to summarize the distribution of a sample. It displays five numbers plus (possibly) some outliers - those five points being the median, hinges (approximate quartiles), and the largest and smallest value not counting any points marked as outliers.
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What's the history of box plots, and how did the "box and whiskers" design evolve?
Many sources date the classic "box plot" design to John Tukey and his "schematic plot" of 1970. The design seems to have stayed relatively static since then, with Edward Tufte's cut-down version of th …