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Box-and-Whisker Plot

From Encyclopedia of Research Design
A box-and-whisker plot, or box plot, is a tool used to visually display the range, distribution symmetry, and central tendency of a distribution in order to illustrate the variability and the concentration of values within a distribution. The box plot is a graphical representation of the five-number summary, or a quick way of summarizing the center and dispersion of data for a variable. The five-number summary includes the minimum value, 1st (lower) quartile (Q1), median, 3rd (upper) quartile (Q3), and the maximum value. Outliers are also indicated on a box plot. Box plots are especially useful in research methodology and data analysis as one of the many ways to visually represent data. From this visual representation, researchers glean several pieces of information that may aid in drawing conclusions, exploring unexpected patterns in the data, or prompting the researcher to develop future research questions and hypotheses. This entry provides an overview of the history of the box…
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A boxplot, or box-whisker diagram, is a graphical representation of the median , inter-quartile range and range of a set of observations. The box in the Figure shows the inter-quartile range, so 50 per cent of the scores are bigger than the lowest line of the box but smaller than the top line of the…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
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From The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization
Extended prose narrative fiction is a latecomer to Greek literature. It is first recognizable in a lively account of the Assyrian king Ninus’ courtship of a 14-year-old Semiramis, preserved on a papyrus dated by a document on its verso to earlier than ad 100–1 and by its script to between 50 bc and…
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From International Encyclopedia of Human Geography
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© 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This article is a revision of the previous edition article by S. Dall’erba, volume 3, pp 683-690, © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. Glossary LISA statistics Indication of the extent to which there is a significant spatial clustering of similar values around a specific…
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Full text Article Scatter Plot Assessment

From Encyclopedia of Special Education: A Reference for the Education of Children, Adolescents, and Adults with Disabilities and Other Exceptional Individuals
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Scatter plot assessment is an observational method used to identify temporal conditions and (in some formats) other stimulus conditions that may reliably predict the occurrence or absence of problem behavior. A scatter plot typically resembles a grid with a specified time interval represented by the…
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Full text Article Boston Box

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a model used for analyzing a company's potential by plotting market share against growth rate. The Boston Box was conceived by the Boston Consulting Group in the 1970s to help in the process of assessing in which businesses a company should invest and of which it should divest itself. A business…
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From Encyclopedia of Archaeology
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As plant foods comprise a major part of the human diet, it is perhaps not surprising that the residues from the preparation of meals are preserved in sediments and on artifacts recovered from archaeological sites. Starch has become a major archaeological research tool in recent years, as the…
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