08 - Five number summary
What is the five number summary of a distribution?
Practice
Chapter 4 # 14, Read pages 56-68
Vocabulary
quartiles, box-and-whisker plot, interquartile range, upper fence, lower fence, standard deviation, variance
Study Questions
- Median and IQR resist the effects of outliers while mean and standard deviation do not. Explain.
- What is our rule of thumb for classifying outliers using box plots?
- How does skewness display itself on box plots vs. histograms?
- What would be the benefit of doing side-by-side box plot and histogram for the same data set?
Resources
- Slide Deck: 08-Five-number-summary.pdf