You can augment a chart for individual measurements with one of several graphical displays, such as a histogram or a box-and-whisker plot. These displays summarize the measurements plotted on the ...

The box plot gives a concise picture of the distribution and emphasizes any extreme values. This particular box plot appears fairly symmetric, with median around 600. You can see two extreme values.

A dot plot or dot chart consists of data points plotted on a graph. The Federal Reserve uses dot plots to show its predicted interest rate outlook.

Box plots, also called box and whisker plots, are more useful than histograms for comparing distributions. They show more information about the data than do bar charts of a summary statistic such ...