Tutorial by Examples: boxplot

This example use the default boxplot() function and the irisdata frame. > head(iris) Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species 1 5.1 3.5 1.4 0.2 setosa 2 4.9 3.0 1.4 0.2 setosa 3 4.7 3.2 ...

Box boxlty - box line type boxlwd - box line width boxcol - box line color boxfill - box fill colors Median medlty - median line type ("blank" for no line) medlwd - median line widht medcol - median line color medpch - median point (NA for no symbol) medcex - median point s...

Boxplots are descriptive diagrams that help to compare the distribution of different series of data. They are descriptive because they show measures (e.g. the median) which do not assume an underlying probability distribution. The most basic example of a boxplot in matplotlib can be achieved by jus...

Matplotlib has its own implementation of boxplot. The relevant aspects of this function is that, by default, the boxplot is showing the median (percentile 50%) with a red line. The box represents Q1 and Q3 (percentiles 25 and 75), and the whiskers give an idea of the range of the data (possibly at Q...