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Quartile Calculator

The three cut points that split your sorted data into four equal parts.

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Methods differ slightly for small data sets; school courses usually use median of halves.

 

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How it's calculated

Linear interpolation: Qk at position 1 + (n − 1) × k ÷ 4 in the sorted data
Median of halves: Q1 and Q3 = medians of the lower and upper halves

A quarter of the data lies below Q1, half below Q2 (the median) and three quarters below Q3. Quartiles and percentiles use linear interpolation between the closest ranks by default (R type 7, Excel PERCENTILE.INC / QUARTILE.INC); the median-of-halves method taught in many courses and used by TI-83/84 calculators can give slightly different values for small data sets, so it is offered as an option for quartiles.

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