Quartiles

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Description

Quartiles divide a set of observations into four equal parts. 25 percent of the observations are less than the first quartile, 50 percent are less than the second quartile, and 75 percent are less than the third quartile.

The interquartile range is the difference between the third quartile and the first quartile.

Concept Prerequisite

Wikipedia Reference

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartiles

Learning Material

Covered in Topic(s)

 
Descriptive Statistics (Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion)