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* The 2nd percentile and the 98th percentile of the data set
 
Rarely, box-plot can be plotted without the whiskers. This can be appropriate for sensitive information to avoid whiskers (and outliers) disclosing actual values observed.<ref name="DGRW">{{Cite journalbook|last1=Derrick|first1=Ben|last2=Green|first2=Elizabeth|last3=Ritchie|first3=Felix|last4=White|first4=Paul|date=September 2022|titlechapter=The Risk of Disclosure When Reporting Commonly Used Univariate Statistics|journaltitle=Privacy in Statistical Databases|series=Lecture Notes in Computer Science |volume=13463|pages=119–129|doi=10.1007/978-3-031-13945-1_9|isbn=978-3-031-13944-4 }}</ref>
 
The unusual percentiles 2%, 9%, 91%, 98% are sometimes used for whisker cross-hatches and whisker ends to depict the [[seven-number summary]]. If the data are [[Normal distribution|normally distributed]], the locations of the seven marks on the box plot will be equally spaced. On some box plots, a cross-hatch is placed before the end of each whisker.