Definition:Box-and-Whisker Diagram/Whiskers

Definition

Context: box-and-whisker diagram.

The whiskers are lines extending from the box which indicate the range.

Also see

• Definition:Box-and-Whisker Diagram/Box

Sources

• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): box-and-whisker diagram
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): box-and-whisker diagram (boxplot)
• 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): box plot