box plot
A graph that shows how data are distributed by using the median, quartiles, least value, and greatest value; also called a box-and-whisker plot
interquartile range (IQR)
The difference of the third (upper) and first (lower) quartiles in a data set, representing the middle half of the data
lower quartile
The median of the lower half of the data
upper quartile
The median of the upper half of the data
mean absolute deviation (MAD)
The mean distance between each data value and the mean of the data set
measure of variability
A single value used to describe how the values in a data set are spread out
range
In statistics, the difference between the greatest and least values in a data set