Re: Mathematicians !! Percentile/Quartile function

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On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 09:45:41 -0700, Pete Stoner
<guest at RapidEuphoria.com> wrote:

>i.e. for values of {2, 6, 7, 10, 14, 15, 16} the quartiles are 6.5, 10 and 14.5
>but for a range of {2, 6, 7, 10, 14, 15} the correct quartiles seem to be 6.25,
>8.5 & 13
FWIW, (and strictly from observation only!) the first is (or might be)
 (6+7)/2, 10, (14+15)/2, while ths second is (or might be)
(2+6+7+10)/2, (7+10)/2, (10+14+15)/2

As I don't have either Excel or 123 to hand, I can't experiment more,
but I wonder what happens with sets of longer numbers.

Regards,
Pete

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