Lecture 7 Range, Quartiles and IQR - Mr. Manoo Murthy

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Range, Quartiles, and IQR

In this lesson: 1. Definition of a measure of spread

Topic on 2. Definition of range, quartiles, and interquartile range summative 3. Finding range, quartiles, and IQR with data lists

exam 4. Five ? number summaries and interpretation 5. Finding range, quartiles, and IQR with frequency tables (grouped and ungrouped tables. 6. When to use five ? number summaries and IQRs

What you should be able to do: 1. Explain the following terms: measure of spread, range, quartiles, and interquartile range. 2. Calculate the range, quartiles, interquartile range, and five ? number summaries with data lists 3. Calculate the range, quartiles, interquartile range, and five ? number summaries with ungrouped and grouped frequency tables. 4. Determine when it is appropriate to use these measures of spread in analysis.

Definition: Measure of Spread

Definition Measure of Spread

A measure of spread describes how far away from the measure of center (mean/median) entries in a data set are.

Why is it important? Consider the following scenario between the scores of 2 different classes:

Two different classes in the same grade have the following scores. A score of 50% is needed to pass, 85% is needed to get a 4. Try to decide which class has more passing students and which class has more students with a 4.

Class A:

? If we looked only at the measures of center without looking

10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 85, 90, 100

at the data, we might think that both classes have equal

Mean = 57.72 Median = 60 7 passing students

passing students [medians are the same] but class B had

Class B:

3 students with a 4

more students with a 4 [mean of B is larger].

? The truth, however, is completely different!

55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65

? We were tricked because in class A, the data values are

Mean = 60 Median = 60 11 passing students

all far away from each other, but in class B, the data

0 students with a 4

values are all close to each other.

It is important to not just measure what number describes the middle of the data, but to also measure how spread out the data is.

Definition: Range, Quartile, and Interquartile Range

Definition Range

The spread between the largest data entry and the smallest data entry.

Range = largest number ? smallest number

Definition Quartiles

The points at which the data set is split into 4 equal parts.

Q2 = median!

50% of data

Q2

RANGE

IQR

Definition Interquartile Range [IQR]

The data range that contains the middle 50% of the entries.

IQR = Q3 ? Q1

Q1 = lower quartile

25% of data

Q1

Q3 = upper quartile

75% of data

Q3

Finding Range, Quartiles, and IQR in Data Lists

Finding quartiles is similar to finding the median!

11 numbers total

1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 11 15

Range = largest number ? smallest number Range = 15 ? 1 = 14

= = .

() = = . IQR = Q3 ? Q1 = 10 - 3 =

Q1 is third observation 3 Q3 is ninth observation 10

Range = 14

Q1 = 3 Q3 = 10 IQR = 7

Step 1: Reorganize the data set in order from smallest to largest.

Step 2: To find the range, subtract the largest number from the

smallest.

Step 3:

To find Q1, divide the number of

observations by 4:

?

If

is

whole,

find

the

average of that term and

the term above.

?

If

has

a

decimal,

then

round up and choose that

number. Step 4:

To find Q3, multiply the total

number

of

observations

by

3 4

and

repeat analysis from Step 2

Step 5: To find IQR, subtract Q3 from Q1

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