Summarizing Data with Boxplots
摘要
Statisticians have created a variety of techniques for summarizing data graphically. For continuous univariate data the most commonly used graphical display is the histogram. Once the interval width is carefully determined, the histogram provides a visual summary of the data center, spread, skewness, and unusual observations, which may be outliers. While these features are visible, there are no specific numeric summary measures that are part of the histogram display.