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first quartile

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noun

Statistics.
  1. (in a frequency distribution) the smallest quartile; the twenty-fifth percentile; the value of the variable below which one quarter of the elements are located.


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Find the first quartile for the average percentage of fat calories.

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The first quartile is the median of the lower half of the scores and does not include the median.

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Find the mean, standard deviation, the median, the first quartile, the third quartile, and the IQR.

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Find the median, the first quartile, and the third quartile for the sum of sample times of diagnosis in the United States.

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There are 17 values between the first quartile, 78, and the largest value, 98: 77 percent.

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