Understanding

Grouped Box Plots

Rhyslyn Rufin-Salinas
e Ann Manganaan- Asis
Understanding Box Plots
• A box plot (also known as box
and whisker plots) is a
standardized way of displaying
the distribution of data based
on number summary.
Understanding Box Plots
 It can tell you about the outliers
and what their values are.
 It can also tell you if your data
is symmetrical, how tightly your
data is grouped, and if and how
your data is skewed.
• In origin, a grouped box plot can be created
from either indexed data or raw data.
• The indexed data is arranged as one data
column and one or more group columns,
while the raw data is arranged as multiple
data columns grouped according to the
column label row (s).
 A box plot is constructed from
five values:
• the minimum value
• the first value
• the first quartile
• the maximum value

We use these values to compare

how close other data values are to
them.
Minimum Value- The lowest score,
excluding outliers (shown at the end
of the left whisker)

Lower Quartile – Twenty five

percent of scores fall below the
lower quartile value ( known as the
first quartile)
Median- The median marks the midpoint of
the data ad is shown by the line that divides
the box into two parts (known as the second
quartile). Half the scores are greater than
equal to this value and half are less.
Upper Quartile- Seventy five percent of the scores fall
below the upper quartile value known as the third
quartile. Thus, 25% of dat are above this value.

Maximum Score- The highest score, excluding outliers

(shown at the end of the right whisker)
Whiskers- the upper and lower whiskers represent
scores outside the middle 50%( the lower 25% of scores
and upper 25% of the scores)
The Interquartile Range (IQR)
This is the box plot showing the
middle 50% of the scores (the
range between the 25th and 75th
percentile.
• Box plots divide the data into
sections that each contain
approximately 25% data in a set.

• Box plots are useful as they provide

summary of the data enabling
researchers to quickly identify
mean values, the dispersion of the
data set and signs and skewness.
 Why use Grouped Box Plots?
Answer:

When you want to compare several

groups on the same quantitative
outcomes, you have to use the
grouped box plot.
 DEMONSTRATION
By
Ms. Jowe Ann