2: Descriptive Statistics
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- 2.3: Measures of the Location of the Data
- The common measures of location are quartiles and percentiles Quartiles are special percentiles. The first quartile, Q1, is the same as the 25th percentile, and the third quartile, Q3, is the same as the 75th percentile.
- 2.4: Measures of the Center of the Data
- The "center" of a data set is also a way of describing location. The two most widely used measures of the "center" of the data are the mean(average) and the median.