interquartile

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

adjective

1. Statistics.,  occurring between the first and third quartiles.

noun

plural

interquartiles 

1. Statistics.,  the range or difference between the first and third quartiles of a set of data.

Example Sentences

The Government Science Service said an an error had been found in the "interquartile ranges" for the projections. but that it "did not affect the insights" that can be taken from the analysis.

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Is the boxplot showing the interquartile range, or something else?

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The prices charged for equipment and services were opened to bidding and then chosen by a process called “interquartile range,” where the low and high outlier bids for each item are eliminated and all the companies agree to be paid the middle price.

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The observation of 658 significantly plastic genes is well outside the interquartile range and in the lower 4% of permuted values.

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Box and whisker plots were generated in ggplot2, with boxes representing the median and interquartile ranges of the estimated date of earliest movement.

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