Question

in box and whisker plots, do you draw a line to the outliers (as your whisker)?

Answer 1

or do you just plot a point, but don't draw a line to it?

Answer 2

Yes You Do

Answer 3

You draw lines to both outlier points, single lines, not dotted

Answer 4

are your outliers also your lowest or highest quartile?

Answer 5

i mean lower extreme and higher extreme

Answer 6

No, outliers are first and last numbers

Answer 7

not quartile

Answer 8

Check this out,
http://ellerbruch.nmu.edu/cs255/jnord/three.gif

Answer 9

No, the whiskers only extend so far and outliers may be single solitary points

Answer 10

is it just me or is this kind of solving this question somewhat of a pain

Answer 11

so you don't draw lines to the outlier?

Answer 12

See the picture, the ihghest and lowest number, also known as extremes, get points on them and lines drawn to them

Answer 13

but the outliers, like ones that are way lower than the low quartile or way higher than the high quartile, do you draw lines to those? Those are the lower and higher extremes

Answer 14

It depends how far the outlier is, but the whiskers will not always connect

Answer 15

how far is too far for the outleir? like 1.5 times the interquartile range right?

Answer 16

yeah that sounds right (I'd need to look it up), but take a look at something like this http://media.texample.net/tikz/examples/PNG/box-and-whisker-plot.png

Answer 17

ok thanks, that makes sense now :)

Answer 18

you'll see that the outliers are on their own

Answer 19

yw