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Definition of Quartiles
1. quartile [n] - See also: quartile
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quartiles
Literary usage of Quartiles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fundamentals of Educational Measurement with the Elements of Statistical Method by Chester Arthur Gregory (1922)
"Quartiles and Percentiles.—It is sometimes convenient to divide the distribution
into divisions smaller than those made by the median, that is, ..."
2. Introduction to Mathematical Statistics by Carl Joseph West (1918)
"The Quartiles as Measures of Dispersion. The distance from the median to the third
... That is, if the first and the third quartiles are close together the ..."
3. Elements of Statistics by Arthur Lyon Bowley (1917)
"On the vertical scale mark the positions of the median, quartiles, &c., obtained
by dividing ... Quartiles ..."
4. An Introduction to Laboratory Physics by Lucius Tuttle (1915)
"Quartiles.—Just as the middle number of a series arranged in ascending or descending
order of ... What are the quartiles of the series 3, 4, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11? ..."
5. Wage Worth of School Training: An Analytical Study of Six Hundred Women by Anna Charlotte Hedges (1915)
"26.8% Age 36.4% Earning» 41.9% Exper. 29.2% Age CHART 14. Quartiles of Earnings,
Experience, and Age of Workers Compared—515 Records. ..."
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