Geography A-Level
Interquartile range
What Interquartile range means in Geography A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Interquartile range
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A measure of spread that can be located from the diagram to evaluate data reliability.
Topics that use Interquartile range
- Graphical skills (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Comparative line graphs
- Compound line graphs
- Correlation
- Dispersion diagrams
- Divergent line graphs
- Line of best fit
- Median
- Outliers
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