Microsoft Excel, a spreadsheet and data analysis program, is available as a stand-alone program or as a component of the Microsoft Office productivity suite. Excel 2007 included a number of new ...

Visualization methods enhance our understanding of sample data and help us make comparisons across samples. Box plots are a simple but powerful graphing tool that can be used in place of histograms to ...

Box plots are an effective way to compare distributions of interval data. To create side-by-side box plots comparing the distributions of salaries for the American and National Leagues, follow these ...

Figure 1: Data visualization with box plots. M.S. and J.W. conceived of the box plot tool, and M.S. developed the tool with input from all authors; J.W. implemented ...