Mean

In statistics, mean has two related meanings:

Interquartile mean

The interquartile mean is a specific example of a truncated mean. It is simply the arithmetic mean after removing the lowest and the highest quarter of values.

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: ar{x} = {2 over n} sum_{i=(n/4)+1}^{3n/4}{x_i}

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assuming the values have been ordered.

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