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> In real life the whiskers are the actual minimum and maximum values observed. Look at this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Boxplot_vs_PD
by blueflow 2y ago
> In real life the whiskers are the actual minimum and maximum values observed.
Look at this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Boxplot_vs_PDF.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Boxplot_...
0.7% of all values are outside the whiskers.
- crazygringo 2y agoThere are two standard ways of doing box plots. One is miniums and maximums, the other is the 1.5 IQR method. The very Wikipedia article your image comes from explains this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_plot#Whiskers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_plot#Whiskers