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To calculate a sample standard deviation one requires the sample values. The five-number summary provides only the lowest value, the highest, the median, and the upper and lower quartiles. In any sample of size greater than five some values will be missing from the summary.

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Q: Can the five-number summary be used to calculate the standard deviation?
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