You can also compute these statistics automatically using the opensource statistical software known simply as "R". The following interactive cell uses the opensource software "Sage" to perform this calculation using the freely available web portal at sagemath.sagecell.org. You can change the data list if you want to use this to compute values for a different collections of numbers. The five-number-summary is displayed graphically using a "Box-Plot". Graphical representations of data will be discussed later in this chapter. You should compare the answers found using R with the values produced by our
definition 1.3.6