Central location and Lower quartile: Difference between pages

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The lowest quarter of an ordered distribution divided into four equal parts in terms of the number of items.

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The boundary between the lowest quarter - as defined above - and the remaining three quarters of the distribution.

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-''Statistics''.
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+The lowest quarter of an ordered distribution divided into four equal parts in terms of the number of items.
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+The boundary between the lowest quarter - as defined above - and the remaining three quarters of the distribution.
-Measures of the central location (or position) of a frequency distribution give an indication of where the data is grouped.
-Three commonly used measures of central location are the mean, the median and the mode.
 == See also ==
-* [[Mean]]
+* [[Inter quartile range]]
-* [[Median]]
+* [[Quartile deviation]]
-* [[Mode]]
+* [[Upper quartile]]
-* [[Position]]
-* [[Skewness]]