Microsoft Excel, a spreadsheet and data analysis ... One feature that was lacking however was an easy way to make box-and-whisker plots, so-called because their outliers resemble cat whiskers.

This example uses the flight delay data of the preceding example to illustrate how you can create box charts with various styles of box-and-whisker plots. For simplicity, the control limits are ...

The following statements create a box chart for DELAY in which a dashed outline and a light gray fill color are used for a box-and-whisker plot if the corresponding subgroup standard deviation exceeds ...