How can you determine skewness of a distribution using a box plot?
- By the height of the box
- By the position of the median in the box
- By the width of the box
- It cannot be determined from a box plot
The skewness of a distribution can be determined using a box plot by looking at the position of the median in the box. If the median is not in the center of the box (i.e., the quartiles are not equidistant from the median), the data is skewed. If the median is closer to the bottom of the box, the data is positively skewed, and if it's closer to the top, the data is negatively skewed.
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