"interquartile range" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: interquartile ranges [plural], IQR [abbreviation]
Head templates: {{en-noun|abbr=IQR}} interquartile range (plural interquartile ranges, abbreviation IQR)
  1. (statistics) The difference between the first and third quartiles; a robust measure of sample dispersion. Wikipedia link: interquartile range Synonyms: midspread Related terms: box plot Coordinate_terms: standard deviation Translations (measure of sample dispersion): écart interquartile [feminine] (French), distanza interquartile [feminine] (Italian), amplitude interquartil [feminine] (Portuguese)

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