y (the width of the box, which is based on a measure called the interquartile range), and any outliers (noted by the points at the ends of the lines). These are both effective ways to show data that provide a good feel for the distribution of the data.</li>
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<img src="StatsThinking21_files/figure-html/plotHeight-1.png" alt="Four different ways of plotting the difference in height between men and women in the NHANES dataset.  P