In: Statistics and Probability
A set of eight systolic blood pressures is given.
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |
Pressure | 110 | 123 | 135 | 155 | 129 | 116 | 101 | 122 |
(a) Find the median value for the dataset.
(b) Find the values of the lower and upper quartiles.
Note: you should do this by hand using the method discussed in
class. Some software packages and calculators use a slightly
different technique and will report different values.
Q1 =
Q3 =
(c) Find the value of the interquartile range (IQR).
IQR =