The oldest person in Mathsminster is 90. The youngest person is 15. The median age of the residents is 44, the lower quartile is 25, and the upper quartile is 67. Represent this information with a box ...

The information required to be able to draw a box plot is called the 'five-figure summary'. The oldest person in Mathsminster is 90. The youngest person is 15. The median age of the residents is 44, ...

Note that you can request different box plot styles, as discussed in the section "Styles of Box Plots," which follows, and as illustrated in Example 18.2.

The box plot is a stylized representation of the distribution of a variable, and it is shown in Figure 38.19. You can also display mosaic plots for nominal variables, as shown in Figure 38.37. In a ...