Question

In the article "material culture as memory: Combs and cremations in Early Medival Britain" (Early Medival Europe Vol. 1, issue 2, pp.9-128), H. Williams discussed the frequency of cremation burials found in 17 archaeological sites in eastern England. Here are the data

83, 64, 46, 48, 523, 35, 34, 265, 2484,

46, 385, 21, 86, 429, 51, 258, 119

a. Obtain and interpret the quartiles

b.determine and interpret the interquartile range

c. find and interpret the five-number summary

d. identify potential outliers, if any

e. construct and interpret a boxplot

Answer 1

So the value less than -372.5 and the values greater than 743.5 are the outliers. That is 2484 is the outlier.

The boxplot is given below