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Measure of Position

The document discusses measures of position including quartiles, deciles, and percentiles. It provides definitions of these terms and an example of calculating the 3rd quartile, 9th decile, and 86th percentile for a given data set.

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Measure of Position

The document discusses measures of position including quartiles, deciles, and percentiles. It provides definitions of these terms and an example of calculating the 3rd quartile, 9th decile, and 86th percentile for a given data set.

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MEASURE OF

POSITION
Objectives

■ Interpret measure of position;

■ Calculate the specified measure of position; and

■ Solve problem involving measure of position for ungrouped


and grouped data
Measures of position

■ give us a way to see where a certain data point or value falls in a sample or distribution.
A measure can tell us whether a value is about the average, or whether it's unusually
high or low
Quartile

■ The quartiles are the score points that divides a distribution into four equal parts.
Deciles
Percentile
Examples
■ Given the Data Set below fin the following
a. The 3rd quartile
b. 9th decile
c. 86th percentile
1, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

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