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Add 5-number summary to glossary #2371

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flannery-denny opened this issue Jan 27, 2025 · 2 comments
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Add 5-number summary to glossary #2371

flannery-denny opened this issue Jan 27, 2025 · 2 comments
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And then use @vocab to refer to it in the box plots lessons
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@retabak Here's a proposal to use or react to
Five-number summary: a comprehensive snapshot of the distribution of a dataset using the five most important percentiles: the minimum, the lower quartile (Q1), the median, the upper quartile (Q3), and the maximum

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From Rachel: the only thing I'm a little uncertain about is "most important" percentiles

maybe "five benchmark percentiles"

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