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A special case of a [[Quantile|quantile]]. The quartiles are the quantiles <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/q/q076/q076340/q0763401.png" /> corresponding to the values of <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/q/q076/q076340/q0763402.png" /> equal to <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/q/q076/q076340/q0763403.png" /> (the lower quartile) and <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/q/q076/q076340/q0763404.png" /> (the upper quartile).
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A special case of a [[Quantile|quantile]]. The quartiles are the quantiles $K_p$ corresponding to the values of $p$ equal to $1/4$ (the lower quartile) and $3/4$ (the upper quartile).

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in probability theory

A special case of a quantile. The quartiles are the quantiles $K_p$ corresponding to the values of $p$ equal to $1/4$ (the lower quartile) and $3/4$ (the upper quartile).

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