Data Analysis with Microsoft Excel: Updated for Office 2007

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.