box-plot v1.0.0

box-plot

Calculate the parameters for a box plot.

Install

npm install box-plot

Usage

const boxPlot = require("box-plot")

boxPlot([-15, 1, 2, 4, 3, 5, 8, 6, 7, 9, 10, 25])
//=> { maximum: 10, upperQuartile: 9, median: 5.5, lowerQuartile: 2, minimum: 1 }

API

boxPlot(values)

values

Type: number[]

An array of values to compute the box plot for.

Return value

maximum

Type: number

The largest value that is not an outlier. An outlier is a number that is greater than 1.5x the difference between the upper and lower quartile added to the upper quartile.

upperQuartile

Type: number

The median of the values after the middle number(s).

median

Type: number

The median of all of the values.

lowerQuartile

Type: number

The median of the values before the middle number(s).

minimum

Type: number

The smallest value that is not an outlier. An outlier is a number that is smaller than 1.5x the difference between the upper and lower quartile subtracted from the lower quartile.