The Basic Practice of Statistics 7th Edition

Published by W. H. Freeman
ISBN 10: 146414253X
ISBN 13: 978-1-46414-253-6

Chapter 2 - Describing Distributions with Numbers - Check Your Skills - Page 67: 2.20

Answer

The five-number summary

Work Step by Step

A boxplot only needs the five number summary to be created. The mean and standard deviation can be the same, but there are multiple ways to have a wildly different data set that has the same mean and standard deviation. The five number summary, per page 53, has a reasonably complete description of all of the data points.
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