Whisker plot
Level 2 Category
Definition
Another term for a box-and-whisker plot, emphasizing the “whiskers” that extend from the box to show variability outside the upper and lower quartiles. It highlights spread and potential outliers in a dataset.
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Box-and-whisker plot
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Reproduced from IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 24315-24342, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3255793. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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Describe the variables, the position and length of the box and whiskers, and any notable features such as the median, the spread of the data, and the presence of outliers.
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"Box-and-whisker plots compare fitness results for IMRFOTS, TS, BA, FA, GWO, SCA, WOA, MRFO, and RSA. TS, BA, and RSA show the widest ranges, while several other methods have narrower boxes near zero. Outliers occur for FA, GWO, SCA, and MRFO, and median values vary among methods."