Visualizing Data: Box Plots
Creating and interpreting box plots to identify trends and patterns, including quartiles and outliers.
Key Questions
- Explain what story the shape of a data distribution tells us about the population.
- Justify why it is important to look at the quartiles of a data set rather than just the range.
- Compare and contrast the information conveyed by a box plot versus a histogram.
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