Using Boxplots for Data Exploration

In this vignette I will explore the use of charts to display basic descriptive statistics in order understand the mean and spread of a variable in a dataset. First I will use the summary() function in R, plot a histogram to show the distribution of the variable, then use a boxplot to further examine the distribution of the variable and highlight key data points that represent the mean, median, 1st and 3rd quantiles and outliers.

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