third quartile

American  

noun

1. (in a frequency distribution) the largest quartile; the 75th percentile; the value of the variable below which three quarters of the elements are located.

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Example Sentences

Find the smallest and largest values, the median, and the first and third quartile for Mr. Ramirez's class.

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Unless the median, first quartile, and third quartile are the same value, the median will lie inside the box or between the first and third quartiles.

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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 37 values below the third quartile and 12 values above.

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The first quartile, Q1, is the middle value of the lower half of the data, and the third quartile, Q3, is the middle value, or median, of the upper half of the data.

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