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Percentiles Concepts and Definitions
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There are other summary measures that can give us more information on the location of the data points and how they are spread out, other than averages like the mean, median and mode. An example of such a measure is percentiles. The diagram below defines some common measures: the 25th percentile, 50th percentile, 75th percentile and interquartile range.