ACTIVITY 7:

Descriptive Statistics – Measures of Relative Position

QUARTILE

Find the median, lower quartile, upper quartile and interquartile range of the following data set of
values: 12 14 15 13 15 19 16 18 17?

To find the Quartile First we need to arrange the values in ascending order.

Plugging in the values in the formulas above we get,

Median(Q2) =5th Term=15

Lower Quartile (Q1) = 2.5th Term = 12.5

Upper Quartile(Q3) = 7.5th Term = 16.5

IQR=Upper Quartile−Lower Quartile

IQR= 4

DECILE

 Given that the series is 3, 5, 9, 7, 4, 6, and 8

Let’s calculate the 2nd and 4th decile.

To find the decile first we have to arrange the data in order.

3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9.

In this given the N=7

D₂     = value of 2[(n+1)/10th] item.

         = value of 2x[(7+1)/10th] item

         =    value of 1.6th item.

=   1st value + 0.6 of the distance between 1st and 2nd value

      =       3 + 0.6(4-3)

  =    3.6

 D₄          =     value of 4[(7+1)/10th] item

               =      value of 4 x 8/10th item.

               =      value of 3.2th item

               =      3rd value + 0.2 of the distance between 3rd and 4th value

               =        5   +   0.2(6-5)

               =         5.2

PERCENTILE

In this scenario let’s pretend that our given with 10-90 percentile range will be used. And for us
find the 10-90 percentile range of the sample data set above, follow these steps:

1) Follow the steps above to calculate the 10th percentile.

= (.1 x 8) =.8 (round to 1)

= K=33 (greater than) and k=30 (greater than or equal to)

= Average. (33 + 30) / 2 = 31.5

 2) Find the 90th percentile following the steps above.

= (.9 x 8) =7.2 (round to 7)

= K=72 (greater than), k=68 (greater than or equal to)

= Average (72 + 68) / 2 = 70

3) Subtract the 10th percentile from the 90th percentile.

= 70 - 31.5 = 38