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Interquartile Range

One way to measure the spread of a data set is with the interquartile range, which is the difference between the third and the first quartile. The quartiles are found by dividing the data set into four equal-sized groups. A set of data values would be divided into groups with three data values in each.
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The quartiles are the three values that divide the data set into four groups. They are denoted with and Notice that is the median.

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The interquartile range, or IQR, is calculated by subtracting the first quartile, from the third,

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