Last week’s post, “A Histogram is NOT a Bar Chart ”, explained that bar charts were used for comparing categorical variables and that histograms were used to show the distributions of binned ...

This example shows how to create box plots and how to specify SYMBOL definitions so data outside the box-plot range can be represented with data points. It also shows how to change a box plot's ...

When data is presented as a list of numbers, it can be difficult to interpret. If it is summarised in a diagram it is easier to draw conclusions and to compare with a different data set. A box plot is ...

The following example uses the flight delay data of the preceding example to illustrate how you can create box plots with various styles of box-and-whisker plots. The following statements create a ...