The cause of gastrointestinal problems for dogs is often related to their tendency to eat things they shouldn't, while cats may suffer digestive system upset as a result of parasites in their prey. For cats and dogs, studies show that a healthy population of gut bacteria is vital to a fit gastrointestinal tract.
In the simplest box plot the central rectangle spans the first quartile to the third quartile (the interquartile range or IQR). A segment inside the rectangle shows the median and whiskers above and below the box show the locations of the minimum and maximum.he box plot (a.k.a. box and whisker diagram) is a standardized way of displaying the distribution of data based on the five number summary: minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum.
A five statistical summary can be represented graphically as a box and whisker plot (or box plot). The first and third quartiles are the ends of the box, the median is indicated with a vertical line in the interior of the box, and the minimum and maximum are the ends of the whiskers (unless an outlier is present). Each of the four sections of a box plot represents 25% of the data in the set.