quartile

Meanings

• noun

  A statistical term representing a value or set of values below which a certain percentage of observations in a group falls.

  - "The median is the second quartile, which separates the data into two equal parts."
  - "Quartiles are often used to understand the distribution of data in a dataset."

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Variants

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quartile , quartiles

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Etymology

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Derived from the Latin word 'quartus' meaning 'fourth'.

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Trivia

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1. Quartiles were first used by the ancient Greeks to analyze data from the Olympic Games.

2. The interquartile range, which is the difference between the third and first quartiles, is a measure of data spread.

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Related Concepts

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1. Percentiles: Percentiles are similar to quartiles but represent the values below which a certain percentage of observations fall, rather than a fixed percentage.

2. Deciles: Deciles are similar to quartiles but represent the values below which a tenth of the observations fall.

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Culture

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Quartiles have been widely used in statistics and data analysis for understanding the distribution of data.

How to Memorize "quartile"

1. visualize
   

   - Imagine a boxplot or histogram where quartiles divide the data into quarters.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word 'quartile' with the number 'four' and the idea of dividing data into equal parts.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Remember that QUARTILES stands for 'Q'uit 'A'verage 'R'anges 'T'o 'I'dentify 'L'ow 'E'xtremes and 'S'ummarize 'data'.

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