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Interquartile Range

Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-014808

1. A measure of spread; a statistic used with ordinal, interval, and ratio variables.

2. The difference between the 25th and 75th percentile of the data. Because the IQR measures the range of the central 50 percent of the data and is not influenced by the 25 percent on either end, it is less sensitive to extremes or outliers than the sample variance and standard deviation.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ENV-014808
FieldEnvironment
SubjectPolicy and guidance
AbbreviationIQR
ReferencesProgram Evaluation Glossary; Watershed Planning Glossary of Terms
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-014808",
  "term": "Interquartile Range",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. A measure of spread; a statistic used with ordinal, interval, and ratio variables.\n\n2. The difference between the 25th and 75th percentile of the data. Because the IQR measures the range of the central 50 percent of the data and is not influenced by the 25 percent on either end, it is less sensitive to extremes or outliers than the sample variance and standard deviation.",
  "abbreviation": "IQR",
  "subject": "Policy and guidance",
  "references": [
    "Program Evaluation Glossary",
    "Watershed Planning Glossary of Terms"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/interquartile-range/"
}

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