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Interquartile Range

Also called: IQR, quartiles, box plot

The interquartile range is the distance between the 25th and 75th percentiles — the width of the middle half of the data. It's a measure of spread that ignores the tails entirely, making it robust where standard deviation is not. The common outlier rule of thumb, flagging anything beyond 1.5 IQRs from a quartile, is what draws the whiskers on a box plot.

Formula

IQR = 75th percentile − 25th percentile

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