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Box Plot
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Box Plot
A visual display that summarizes data using a 'box and whiskers’ format to show the minimum and maximum values (ends of the whiskers), interquartile range (length of the box), and median (line through the box)


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Box-and-whisker plots (7) (Figure) illustrate the skewed nature of the age distribution of cases by sex (A), year of report (B), and patient outcome (C); the third quartiles of the distributions ([Q.
This information is also available in chart 1 (top panel), which has box-and-whisker plots for the five projections.
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