interquartile range

English

Noun

interquartile range (plural interquartile ranges)

1. (statistics) The difference between the first and third quartiles; a robust measure of sample dispersion.

Synonyms

• IQR
• midspread

Coordinate terms

• standard deviation

Translations

measure of sample dispersion

• French: écart interquartile

See also

• box plot
• interquartile range on Wikipedia.Wikipedia