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Noun: quartile deviation
  1. (statistics) half the difference between the first and third quartiles in a frequency distribution
    "In interpreting the quartile deviation of any distribution of test scores, the size of the value is always the indicator"

Type of: deviation

Part of: interquartile range, middle fifty, midspread

Encyclopedia: Quartile deviation