A simple way of representing statistical data on a plot in which a rectangle is drawn to represent the second and third quartiles, usually with a vertical line inside to indicate the median value. The lower and upper quartiles are shown as horizontal lines either side of the rectangle.
Example sentencesExamples
The resulting two-dimensional representation is shown in the scatter plot as well as the box plot corresponding to the data distribution along the x axis.
Each box plot presents measurements from at least 90 nuclei.
The box plot with error bars indicates the median and the 10th, 25th, 75th, and 90th percentiles for each of the treatment groups
The central rectangle in the box plot covers the second and third quartiles of the results - effectively the middle 50% of results.
Average support values are indicated by squares within the box plot.