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Five-number summary
In
descriptive statistics
, the
five-number summary
of a
data set
consists of:
the
minimum
(smallest observation)
the
lower quartile
or
first quartile
(which cuts off the lowest 25% of the data)
the
median
(middle value)
the
upper quartile
or
third quartile
(which cuts off the highest 25% of the data)
the
maximum
(largest observation)
See also:
Quartile
,
Median
,
Order statistic
,
Box plot