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Boxplots in Excel

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Visit this site: http://www.mis.coventry.ac.uk/~nhunt/boxplot.htm
Author:Neville Hunt, Coventry University
Description: A method for using Microsoft Excel to create boxplots, or box and whisker diagrams, which provide a simple graphical summary of a set of data. Boxplots show a measures of central location (the median), two measures of dispersion (the range and inter-quartile range), the skewness (from the orientation of the median relative to the quartiles) and potential outliers (marked individually). Adapted from Hunt's article The Spreadsheet User.
Levels: Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12), College
Languages: English
Resource Types: Manuals/How-To's, Topic Tools Miscellaneous
Math Topics: Graphing of Data

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