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Name: Descriptive Statistics: Box Plot
ID: m16296
Language: English (en)
Subject: Mathematics and Statistics
Keywords: box, median, quartiles
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 3.0
Authors: Susan Dean (susanldean45@gmail.com), Barbara Illowsky, Ph.D. (illowskybarbara@deanza.edu)
Copyright Holders: Maxfield Foundation (cnx@cnx.org)
Maintainers: Susan Dean (susanldean45@gmail.com), Barbara Illowsky, Ph.D. (illowskybarbara@deanza.edu), Connexions (cnx@cnx.org)
Latest version: 1.13 (history)
First publication date: Apr 7, 2008 10:54 am -0500
Last revision to module: Mar 28, 2013 1:32 am -0500

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Version History

Version: 1.13 Mar 28, 2013 1:32 am -0500 by Susan Dean
Changes: 
Module: Descriptive Statistics: Box Plot: Added calculator instructions.
Version: 1.12 May 15, 2012 9:06 am -0500 by Susan Dean
Changes: 
Descriptive Statistics: Box Plot; Added note and updated the graphs.
Version: 1.11 Aug 11, 2011 9:03 pm -0500 by Susan Dean
Changes: 
Descriptive Statistics: Box Plot: Updated glossary term "quartiles."
Version: 1.10 Aug 11, 2011 8:49 pm -0500 by Susan Dean
Changes: 
Descriptive Statistics: Box Plot: Updated glossary term "median."
Version: 1.9 Jul 9, 2011 3:59 pm -0500 by Susan Dean
Changes: 
Descriptive Statistics: Box Plot: CNXML upgrade.
Version: 1.8 Jan 8, 2009 10:09 pm -0600 by Susan Dean
Changes: 
Descriptive Statistics: Box Plot:  Added the phrase  "although it does not actually have to be one of the observed values." to "You can think of the median as the "middle value","
Version: 1.7 Oct 27, 2008 12:55 pm -0500 by James Cooper
Changes: 
roles updated
Version: 1.6 Jul 14, 2008 11:03 am -0500 by Connexions
Changes: 
Removed print width parameters
Version: 1.5 Jul 8, 2008 8:14 pm -0500 by Connexions
Changes: 
post review edits
Version: 1.4 Jul 3, 2008 10:49 am -0500 by Connexions
Changes: 
post review updates
Version: 1.3 Jun 26, 2008 4:02 pm -0500 by Jonathan Emmons
Changes: 
Roles updated
Version: 1.2 Jun 5, 2008 2:33 pm -0500 by Uchenna Anyikam
Changes: 
Updated Glossary Links, etc.
Version: 1.1 May 22, 2008 9:30 am -0500 by Jonathan Emmons
Changes: 
Initial publication

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