Showing posts with label box plot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label box plot. Show all posts

Wednesday, 20 March 2019

Box and whisker plot in excel

For detailed method:
https://www.dummies.com/education/math/statistics/box-and-whisker-charts-for-excel/


Some bullet points:

Calculate

  • min
  • q1
  • median
  • q3
  • max

of each data column for which a box plot is desired

Then calculate

  1. q1-min 
  2. q1
  3. median-q1
  4. q3-median
  5. max-q3

Select calculated values 2, 3 and 4 for each data column and insert stacked column chart

To add whiskers, select lower half of each stacked column, select error bars, select minus, cap, choose custom, for -ve error value select all q1-minimum values
Then select the upper bars, select error bars, plus, cap, custom, for +ve value specify max-q3 values
Hide the lower bars using formatting options and you are done.

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