

There are five important values to remember if you want to divide your data into quartiles. The quartiles separate the data into four equally sized parts. When we are working with a larger set of data it is much easier to separate the data into quartiles. The bigger the range the bigger is the measure of variation.

When we calculate the measure of variation we first calculate the difference between the greatest and the lowest values.
USING MINITAB EXPRESS TO DO A STEM AND LEAF PLOT SERIES
if we have the two number series A (10, 23, 50, 72, 90) and B (48, 49, 50, 51, 52) we can see that they both have the same median, but that there is a huge difference in variation. We then need to use the measure of variation e.g. We have already learned about the median, the mode and the mean but sometimes these don't fully describe a set of data. On the left hand side of the line we write the numbers that corresponds to the tens, 12 has 1 in the tens place and 33 has 3 in the tens place.

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