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- adjective statistics between
quartiles - adjective statistics specifically between the first and third quartiles
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Examples
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Statistically, that is called the interquartile range and is a convenient way of summarizing the characteristics or dimensions of average members of a group.
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I'd break down exactly how the reputation algorithm works, but I keep falling asleep everytime Shawn says "interquartile".
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If the distribution is normal, 1 1/2 times the interquartile range will approximate a 90% confidence interval, though I have no reason to believe that the data would be Gaussian.
A Second Look at USHCN Classification #2 « Climate Audit 2007
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The dark horizontal line is the median, the notches represent the 95% confidence intervals on the medians, the box heights show the interquartile ranges, the whiskers show the data extent, and the circles are outliers.
Willis E on Hansen and Model Reliability « Climate Audit 2006
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The real way to test GCMs against the past is to compare other metrics than temperature trends, to compare such things as the standard deviation, interquartile range, derivatives, skewness, kurtosis, outliers, and other statistical measures, for their hindcasts with the actual reality.
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The real way to test GCMs against the past is to compare other metrics than temperature trends, to compare such things as the standard deviation, interquartile range, derivatives, skewness, kurtosis, outliers, and other statistical measures, for their hindcasts with the actual reality.
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The lines or whiskers go from the minimum to the maximum unless there are interquartile range (the length of the rectangle) from the 75th percentile or 1.5 times the interquartile range (IQR) less than the 25 th percentile.
Forbes.com: News Naomi Robbins 2012
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Other key findings (based on 182 basic pay deals) reveal that: the interquartile range (the 50% of deals between the lower and upper quartile) for the whole economy is unchanged at nil to 2%, where it has stood since the three months to January there are some signs of recovery in the manufacturing sector, where basic deals were worth
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The median length of stay for all hospitals was eight days (interquartile range [IQR], six to 12 days).
MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians 2010
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Data are presented as mean ± SEM or median and interquartile range.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Tai-Ho Hung et al. 2010
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