Quartiles is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Quartiles meaning
plural of quartile
Using Quartiles
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of quartile
- In the example corpus, quartiles often appears in combinations such as: third quartiles, quartiles and, quartiles of.
Context around Quartiles
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 8 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Quartiles
- In this selection, "quartiles" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, third, pay, top, respectively, divide and depending stand out and add context to how "quartiles" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and 4th quartiles 2 25 and and third quartiles and the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "quartiles" sits close to words such as aanand, abcd and abdurrahman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with quartiles
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
You're thinking of quartiles. (5 words)
What are the 4-quantiles (the "quartiles") of this dataset? (10 words)
Quartiles divide a rank-ordered data set into four equal parts. (11 words)
After determining the first and third quartiles and the interquartile range as outlined above, then fences are calculated using the following formula: : : where Q 1 and Q 3 are the first and third quartiles, respectively. (35 words)
Calculation In calculation of the IQM, only the data in the second and third quartiles is used (as in the interquartile range ), and the lowest 25% and the highest 25% of the scores are discarded. (35 words)
The minister congratulated everyone who contributed to this and particularly to those firms whose stock finished in the top quartiles of the test and on the extremely high performance of their birds. (32 words)
What are the 4-quantiles (the "quartiles") of this dataset? (10 words)
Example sentences (13)
After determining the first and third quartiles and the interquartile range as outlined above, then fences are calculated using the following formula: : : where Q 1 and Q 3 are the first and third quartiles, respectively.
Analysis of the published reports shows women hold fewer than half of the positions in the upper pay quartiles in eight departments.
The minister congratulated everyone who contributed to this and particularly to those firms whose stock finished in the top quartiles of the test and on the extremely high performance of their birds.
If you look at the middle quartiles (25% to 75%) you get a very different picture.
You're thinking of quartiles.
Calculation In calculation of the IQM, only the data in the second and third quartiles is used (as in the interquartile range ), and the lowest 25% and the highest 25% of the scores are discarded.
In other words, the IQR is the 1st quartile subtracted from the 3rd quartile; these quartiles can be clearly seen on a box plot on the data.
Quartiles divide a rank-ordered data set into four equal parts.
The IQM can be equal to any value between the first and third quartiles, depending on all the observations in the interquartile range.
The values that divide each part are called the first, second, and third quartiles; and they are denoted by Q1, Q2, and Q3, respectively.
Thus quartiles are the three cut points that will divide a dataset into four equal-size groups (cf. depicted example).
Truncate the fractional quartile size, and remove this number from the 1st and 4th quartiles (2.25 observations in each quartile, thus the lowest 2 and the highest 2 are removed).
What are the 4-quantiles (the "quartiles") of this dataset?
Common combinations with quartiles
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- third quartiles 5×
- quartiles and 2×
- quartiles of 2×