Interquartile mean

The interquartile mean (IQM) (or midmean) is a statistical measure of central tendency based on the truncated mean of the interquartile range. The IQM is very similar to the scoring method used in sports that are evaluated by a panel of judges: discard the lowest and the highest scores; calculate the mean value of the remaining scores. In calculation of the IQM, only the data between the first and third quartiles is used, and the lowest 25% and the highest 25% of the data are discarded. assuming the values have been ordered. The method is best explained with an example. Consider the following dataset: 5, 8, 4, 38, 8, 6, 9, 7, 7, 3, 1, 6 First sort the list from lowest-to-highest: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 8, 9, 38 There are 12 observations (datapoints) in the dataset, thus we have 4 quartiles of 3 numbers. Discard the lowest and the highest 3 values: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 8, 9, 38 We now have 6 of the 12 observations remaining; next, we calculate the arithmetic mean of these numbers: xIQM = (5 + 6 + 6 + 7 + 7 + 8) / 6 = 6.5 This is the interquartile mean. For comparison, the arithmetic mean of the original dataset is (5 + 8 + 4 + 38 + 8 + 6 + 9 + 7 + 7 + 3 + 1 + 6) / 12 = 8.5 due to the strong influence of the outlier, 38. The above example consisted of 12 observations in the dataset, which made the determination of the quartiles very easy. Of course, not all datasets have a number of observations that is divisible by 4. We can adjust the method of calculating the IQM to accommodate this. So ideally we want to have the IQM equal to the mean for symmetric distributions, e.g.: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 has a mean value xmean = 3, and since it is a symmetric distribution, xIQM = 3 would be desired. We can solve this by using a weighted average of the quartiles and the interquartile dataset: Consider the following dataset of 9 observations: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17 There are 9/4 = 2.25 observations in each quartile, and 4.5 observations in the interquartile range. Truncate the fractional quartile size, and remove this number from the 1st and 4th quartiles (2.

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