The interquartile mean is a measure of central tendency. While all values in a data set are used to calculate the mean, only the interquartile range -- the central portion of a data set -- is used to ...

The interquartile range is another measure of spread, except that it has the added advantage of not being affected by large outlying values. In order to calculate this value we must first understand ...

For individuals exposed to contaminated drinking water, reduced arsenic exposure is associated with lower mortality from chronic diseases.

There are 31 children in the class. The lower quartile is the \((31+1)\div 4\) value which is the \(8^{th}\) value, which is \(1\). The upper quartile is the \((31+1 ...

The sample standard deviation is a commonly used estimator of the population scale. However, it is sensitive to outliers and may not remain bounded when a single data point is replaced by an arbitrary ...

(1) The number of adaptively evolved (CDE) genes decreased from 125 to 94, and remains outside the interquartile range for the permutated distribution (23, 73), and in the upper decile of the permuted ...