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How to Calculate Quartiles.

Rosemary Njeri

Quartiles are the values that divide a list of numbers into quarters or into four.

Quartiles are used to calculate the interquartile range, which is a measure of variability around the median.

Formula to calculate quartiles.

How to Calculate Quartiles.

Q1 is the lower quartile or 25%.

Q2 is the median or 50%.

Q3 is the upper quartile or 75%.

n is the number of the observations.

Example:

Calculate the upper quartile of the following data set.

2, 3, 4, 6, 8.

There are 5 observations.

This means that Q3 is average of 4th and 5th position of the observations which is 6 and 8 here and the average of same is 7.

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