The tail of the distribution box
The tails are the extremities of the sample or population, rather than the centre. A box plot, sometimes called a box and whisker plot, provides a snapshot of your continuous variable's distribution. It consists of a horizontal line, drawn according to scale, from the minimum to the maximum data value, and a box drawn from the lower to. The right tail cut off by x ∗ is defined similarly, as indicated by the shading in Figure 5.
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