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.
The interquartile range, abbreviated IQR, is just the width of the box in the box-and-whisker plot. That is, IQR = Q3 â Q1. The IQR can be used as a measure of how spread-out the values are. Statistics assumes that your values are clustered around some central value. The IQR tells how spread out the middle values are; it can also be used to tell when some of the other values are too far from the central value.