box plot
What box plot means in Mathematics GCSE, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
A diagram used to visualise the five-figure summary: minimum, lower quartile (Q₁), median (Q₂), upper quartile (Q₃), and maximum.
Shows the minimum, lower quartile, median, upper quartile and maximum on a scale, so the box holds the middle half of the data.
Topics that use box plot
- Statistics (AQA GCSE)
- Statistics (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Continuous Data
- Cumulative frequency graph
- Extrapolation
- Frequency density
- Histogram
- Outlier
- scatter graphs
- bias
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