interquartile range

[ in-ter-kwawr-tahyl, -til ]

nounStatistics.
  1. the range of values of a frequency distribution between the first and third quartiles.

Origin of interquartile range

1
First recorded in 1880–85; inter- + quartile

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British Dictionary definitions for interquartile range

interquartile range

/ (ˌɪntəˈkwɔːtaɪl) /


noun
  1. statistics the difference between the value of a variable below which lie 25 per cent of the population, and that below which lie 75 per cent: a measure of the spread of the distribution

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