Data Analysis with Microsoft Excel: Updated for Office 2007

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170 Fundamentals of Statistics


Figure 4-31 shows how a boxplot might look for distributions with posi-
tive or negative skewness and for symmetric distributions.

Figure 4-30
The
completed
boxplot

Figure 4-31
Boxplots of
different
distribution
shapes

Now that you’ve learned about the structure of the boxplot, try creating a
few boxplots on your own with sample data.
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