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Cumulative Frequency and Percentiles

Use cumulative frequency curves to estimate medians, quartiles, percentiles and proportions.

What cumulative frequency shows

Cumulative frequency counts how many values are less than or equal to an upper class boundary.

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Read quartiles and percentiles from the cumulative frequency axis, then across to the curve and down to the data axis.

Quartiles

For \(n\) data values, estimate:

The interquartile range is \(Q_3-Q_1\).