After the selection of this option you are first asked to choose the variables to be plotted, unless only one variable is valid. You can use more than one variable, even all of the variables at the same time, with the >> button. On the right-hand side of the screen there are a number of options and buttons:
Variable
With this button you can select another variable to be plotted.
Divide
With the Divide option you can divide the data in subgroups. For example, you can divide a file of students into a group of male students and a group of female students.
Each subgroup has its own boxplot.
Title
With this button you can add a title to your graph. (All graphs should have titles!) This title should make the purpose of the graph clearer when you print it.
Horizontal
The boxplot(s) are drawn horizontally.
Vertical
The boxplots are drawn vertically.
Outliers
You can choose to show the outliers, or to extend the whiskers of the boxplot to the extreme values. Outliers are shown by a cross. The definition of an outlier is an observation further away from the center than 1½ inter-quartile range from the nearer quartile.
Pull-down menu
These options are also available from the pull-down menu below Boxplot. In the pull-down menu you can turn off the panel on the right-hand side with the menu option Buttons.
Buttons
With the print button you obtain a print option and options to copy the graph to the clipboard, send to Word, or save as file
Offers help on the item currently being processed.
You leave the active window and return to the previous window.
The graph is immediately pasted into Word.