StaTips Part VII: Anatomy of a Boxplot

Sa？etak ABSTRACT Often researchers have the need to show graphically the behaviour of ordinal data or continuous data with great asymmetrical distribution. In all of these situations, a boxplot may be an appropriate way of data presentation. Because of its non-parametric nature, this kind of diagram is particularly useful when dealing with asymmetrical distribution. The different components of the most common variant of boxplot are herein detailed