Interpreting data: boxplots and tables
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# Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

- understand and use the following terms: boxplots, box, whisker, upper and lower adjacent values, rate, time series, line plot
- demonstrate an awareness of the idea that the general pattern of a set of data, in terms of location, dispersion and skewness, can be graphically represented in a boxplot
- understand that boxplots can be used to provide a quick and simple comparison of data sets
- understand that patterns in tabular data can be made clearer by leaving out unhelpful information, by including extra pieces of useful information, or by drawing appropriate graphs
- describe and compare data sets on the basis of boxplots.
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