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In python-pandas boxplots with default settings, the red bar is the mean median, and the box signifies the 25th and 75th quartiles, but what exactly do the whiskers mean in this case? Where is the documentation to figure out the exact definition (couldn’t find it)?
Example code:
df.boxplot()
Example result:
These are specified in the matplotlib documentation. The whiskers are some multiple (1.5 by default) of the interquartile range.