Learn how to create, customize, interpret, and use a box plot in MATLAB, a graphical tool to visualize the distribution and variability of your numerical data.

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 ...

To create a box plot, you must first calculate the five-number summary of your numerical variable, which can be done using various tools or software, such as Excel, R, Python, or online calculators.

Example 18.2: Creating Various Styles of Box-and-Whisker Plots The following example uses the flight delay data of the preceding example to illustrate how you can create box plots with various styles ...

But again, a scatter plot deals with numeric data such as dates, times, currencies, percentages, and so on. It’s capable of showing text related to those numbers but the horizontal and vertical ...

Figure 4: Box plots are a more communicative way to show sample data. Data are shown for three n = 20 samples from normal distributions with s.d. σ = 1 and mean μ = 1 (A,B) or 3 (C).