Do It Yourself!: Building a Box Plot

To build a box plot, begin with a dotplot as shown in the graph below. Clicking on the "Next Step" button illustrates the steps for converting a dotplot into a box plot. The data are from Example 2.14 and the constructed box plot corresponds to Figure 2.18 in the text.

The following data are from Example 2.13 in the text.

 

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