Quantile

A quantile is a cut point dividing a distribution into intervals of equal probability. Percentiles and quartiles are quantiles.

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See also

• Interquartile range — The interquartile range is the span between the twenty-fifth and seventy-fifth percentiles, covering the middle half of the data. …
• Median — The median is the middle value of a sorted set. This site reports median penalties rather than mean penalties because a handful of…

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Interquartile range

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