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.