What is the primary purpose of a box plot?
R Programming for Statistics and Data Science - Building a Box and Whiskers Plot with ggplot2

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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
To display the mean of a dataset
To represent group numerical data in terms of quartiles
To show the correlation between two variables
To visualize categorical data
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
In the Titanic data example, which variable is used as the grouping variable?
Age
Gender
Fare
Survived
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What do the vertical lines outside the box in a box plot represent?
The mean of the data
The range of the data
The standard deviation
The observations within 1.5 interquartile range
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What does the line inside the box of a box plot indicate?
The mode of the data
The mean of the data
The range of the data
The median of the data
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
How can you overlay data points onto a box plot?
By using the gm_line function
By using the gm_overlay function
By using the gm_jitter function
By using the gm_point function
6.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which argument can be used to change the color and shape of outliers in a box plot?
outlier.color and outlier.shape
outlier.col and outlier.shp
outlier.dot.color and outlier.dot.shape
outlier.color and outlier.shape
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the purpose of using the coord_flip function in a box plot?
To flip the axes of the plot
To change the color of the plot
To add a legend to the plot
To adjust the size of the plot
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