This example uses the flight delay data of the preceding example to illustrate how you can create box charts with various styles of box-and-whisker plots. For simplicity, the control limits are ...

When data is presented as a list of numbers, it can be difficult to interpret. If it is summarised in a diagram it is easier to draw conclusions and to compare with a different data set. A box plot is ...

Note that you can request different box plot styles, as discussed in the section "Styles of Box Plots," which follows, and as illustrated in Example 18.2.