Medidas de posicion

Measures of Position

Quartiles: these divide the data set into quarters.

Percentiles: these divide the data set into 100 equal parts. For example, the 25th percentile is the value below which 25% of the data falls.

Median: the middle value in a data set when the values are arranged in numerical order.

Mode: the value that occurs most frequently in the data set.

The first quartile (Q1) is the value below which 25% of the data falls.

The second quartile (Q2) is the same as the median.

The third quartile (Q3) is the value below which 75% of the data falls.

Are statistical values that describe the location or position of a specific value or observation within a data set. They help to identify how far an observation or value is from the center of the distribution of the data.