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Q: What is the significance of quartiles?
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How many quartiles are there?

There are 5 quartiles in any data set.


How do you find the first and third quartiles?

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Are the upper and lower quartiles classed as averages?

No.


How do you find the inner and outer quartiles?

To find the inner quartiles (Q1 and Q3), first arrange your data in ascending order. Q1 is the median of the lower half of the data, and Q3 is the median of the upper half. The inner quartiles divide the data into four equal parts. The outer quartiles also known as the minimum and maximum values, are the smallest and largest values in the data set.


Are quartiles divided into four equal quarters?

Yes it does.


What is the interquartile range a measure of?

The interquartile range is well known as a measure of statistical dispersion. It is equal to difference between upper and lower quartiles. The quartiles is a type of quantile.


What are quartiles in relationship to mean median mode?

Quartiles are values that divide a sample of data into four groups containing the same number of observations. You will find details in the related link.


What does the distance between the quartiles tell you?

It gives you the interquartile range


How do you solve a quartile?

Quartiles have nothing to be "solved", but they can be "found" if that's what you mean...


What is the usefulness of quartiles in business?

It is a simple but crude measure of the spread of data.


How do you convert quartiles?

It depends on what you wish to convert them to. Having said that, there are not many options.


Data that is more than 1.5 times the interquartile range from the quartiles?

Outliers