Box plots, also called box and whisker plots, are more useful than histograms for comparing distributions. They show more information about the data than do bar charts of a summary statistic such ...

Bar charts and box plots are omnipresent in the scientific literature. They are typically used to visualize quantities associated with a set of items. Representing the data accurately, however ...

Figure 32.12: Box-and-Whisker Plot. The skeletal style of the box-and-whisker plot shown in Figure 32.12 is the default. You can specify alternative styles with the BOXSTYLE= option; see Example 32.2 ...

INTERPOL=BOXT20 specifies a box plot with tops and bottoms on its whiskers, and the high and low bounds at the 80th and 20th percentiles. CO= colors the boxes and whiskers. BWIDTH= affects the width ...