An element introduced into a story, film, etc. to advance its plot.

The secondary plot of a piece of literature, television, etc., contrasted with the primary A plot.

plural of B plot

plural of box plot

(statistics) A graphical summary of a numerical data sample through five statistics: median, lower quartile, upper quartile, and some indication of more extreme upper and lower values.

(statistics) A graphical display used in meta-analysis designed to illustrate the relative strength of treatment effects in multiple quantitative scientific studies addressing the same question.

plural of forest plot

(statistics) A scatterplot of effect size against a measure of study size or variability, used primarily as a visual aid to detecting and displaying bias or systematic heterogeneity.

plural of funnel plot

(statistics) A plotting of data above an axis to show frequency of data in each category.