Suggested answer to exercise: Histogram of FEV1 data, 8

Question 8: Draw a box and whisker plot of the distribution.

Suggested answer

Choose Graphs, Boxplts, Boxplot, Simple, Summaries of separate variables.

The last bit is essential or SPSS will be waiting for a grouping variable, which you will not be able to provide.

Click Define, pick FEV1 as the variable in Boxes represent, OK.

You should get:

I decided to make the text a bit bigger and change the colour, as I did for the histogram:


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