Rainfall in Samaru

A box plot displays the 25%, 50% and 75% percentiles.

For some data sets, other percentiles are more important, especially when we are interested in rare events in the extreme ends of the distribution. Drag the horizontal red lines to display the 10%, 50% and 90% percentiles.

Note that the lower box displays the quantiles differently from a conventional box plot when the percentiles are not {25%, 50%, 75%} to avoid confusion with that standard data display.

This is the same data as described in the first page of the section — annual rainfal in Samaru from 1928 to 1983.