This week focuses on illustrating, determining, interpreting and solving problems involving quartiles in an ungrouped data set. Quartiles divide a distribution into four equal parts, with the first quartile being the median of the lower half of data and the third quartile being the median of the upper half. An example shows how to find the three quartiles (first, second, third) in a sample data set by arranging values in order and using the median to divide the data in half and then in quarters. The second quartile is also referred to as the median.
This week focuses on illustrating, determining, interpreting and solving problems involving quartiles in an ungrouped data set. Quartiles divide a distribution into four equal parts, with the first quartile being the median of the lower half of data and the third quartile being the median of the upper half. An example shows how to find the three quartiles (first, second, third) in a sample data set by arranging values in order and using the median to divide the data in half and then in quarters. The second quartile is also referred to as the median.
This week focuses on illustrating, determining, interpreting and solving problems involving quartiles in an ungrouped data set. Quartiles divide a distribution into four equal parts, with the first quartile being the median of the lower half of data and the third quartile being the median of the upper half. An example shows how to find the three quartiles (first, second, third) in a sample data set by arranging values in order and using the median to divide the data in half and then in quarters. The second quartile is also referred to as the median.
This week focuses on illustrating, determining, interpreting and solving problems involving quartiles in an ungrouped data set. Quartiles divide a distribution into four equal parts, with the first quartile being the median of the lower half of data and the third quartile being the median of the upper half. An example shows how to find the three quartiles (first, second, third) in a sample data set by arranging values in order and using the median to divide the data in half and then in quarters. The second quartile is also referred to as the median.
QUARTILES and solves problems involving QUARTILES in an UNGROUPED DATA For this week, we will focus on illustrating, determining, interpreting and solving problems involving QUARTILES in an ungrouped data. We will be using the concept of median to determine the quartiles in a data set. Let us first define quantiles. Quantiles are measures of position that divide a distribution into two, four, ten and hundred equal parts. Such measures of positions are median, quartiles, deciles and percentiles.
The median, other than as a measure
of central tendency, divides a data set or a distribution into two equal parts. Quartiles are score points which divide a distribution into four equal parts. About twenty five percent (25%) of the distribution fall below the first quartile, about fifty percent (50%) fall below the second quartile, and about seventy five percent (75%) fall below the third quartile. The diagram below represents the 3 quartiles in a set of data. Answer: First, arrange the data set in ascending order. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8, 9 Second, to show where the second quartile is, locate the median. The median divides the data set into the lower half and upper half. The median is called the second quartile, 𝑄2 , and is also referred to as the middle quartile. The 2nd quartile is the 6th value from the left of the data set. The 2nd quartile is 5. It means that half of the values in the data set is less than or equal to 5. Hence, it also means that 50% of the scores of the students who took the test in statistics is less than or equal to 5. Third, to show where the first quartile is, locate the median of the lower half of the data set. The median of the lower half of the data set is the first quartile, 𝑄1, which is also referred to as the lower quartile. The 1st quartile is the 3rd value from the left of the data set. The 1st quartile is 3. It means that a quarter of the values in the data set is less than or equal to 3. Hence, it also means that 25% of the scores of the students who took the test in statistics is less than or equal to 3. Fourth, to show where the third quartile is, locate the median of the upper half of the data set. The median of the upper half of the data set is the third quartile, 𝑄3, which is also referred to as the upper quartile. The 3rd quartile is the 9th value from the left of the data set. The 3rd quartile is 8. It means that 3/4 of the values in the data set is less than or equal to 8. Hence, it also means that 75% of the scores of the students who took the test in statistics is less than or equal to 8. It means that your blood sugar level is equal to the median blood sugar level of the group. It also means that your blood sugar level is also equal to the 2nd quartile blood sugar level of the patients. Furthermore, it also means that your blood sugar level is greater than the lower quartile blood sugar level and less than the upper quartile blood sugar level of the group.