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Measuring Position: Quartiles, Percentiles, Standardized Scores
II. Exploring Data: Lecture 5 | 16:28 min
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Measuring Position: Quartiles, Percentiles, Standardized Scores
To find the quartiles, sort the data from lowest to highest.
The methods to find the percentiles are actually approximate percentiles.
Standardized scores, also known as z-scores, are used to compare observations from two or more distributions.
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