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Box and whisker plots

A box-and-whisker plot is a good way to show the distribution of a dataset. The "box" represents the interquartile range [IQR], which shows the middle 50% of the data, with the line inside indicating the median. The "whiskers" extend from the box to the smallest and largest data points within 1.5 times the IQR, while any points outside this range are plotted as outliers. Box plots are valuable for identifying...

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