单词 | box and whisker |
释义 | > as lemmasbox and whisker (also whiskers) P10. Mathematics. box and whisker (also whiskers): (as a modifier) designating a representation of statistical data on a plot in which a rectangle is drawn to represent the second and third quartiles, divided by a line inside to indicate the median value, with the lower and upper quartiles shown by lines extending out perpendicular to either side of the rectangle. Esp. in box and whisker diagram, box and whisker graph, box and whisker plot, etc. Cf. earlier box plot at Compounds 5.Similarly box-whisker (also box-whiskers) in the same sense. ΚΠ 1976 Science 22 Oct. 402/2 (note) The idea for the box and whisker plots came from J. W. Tukey, Exploratory Data Analysis. 1991 Plains Anthropologist 36 73 (caption) Box and whisker diagrams for tombstone height by decade, Sunset Cemetery. 2001 Ann. Bot. 88 1030/2 (caption) Box-whisker plot of the coefficient of variation for the traits studied. The horizontal line represents the mean, the box encompasses ± 1 s.e., and the vertical line delimits the non-outlier minimum and maximum values. 2008 L. L. Giventer Statist. Anal. for Public Admin. (ed. 2) iii. 42 A box-whisker graph uses a one-dimensional continuous scale. 2010 E. Barrow in D. Sauchyn et al. New Normal iv. 48 The box-and-whisker plots are very similar for the grassland and forest regions, although there are more outliers (i.e. more extreme scenario values) in the forest region. 2016 M. D. Rossetti Simulation Modeling & Arena (ed. 2) vii. 378 Table 7.5 shows the data copied from the box–whiskers chart. < as lemmas |
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