interquartile range outlier
In descriptive statistics, the interquartile range (IQR), also called the midspread or middle fifty, is a measure of statistical dispersion, being equal to the difference between the upper and lower quartiles, IQR = Q 3 â Q 1.igure 3. Box-and-whisker plot with four close and one far away extreme values, defined as outliers above Q3 + 1.5(IQR) and Q3 + 3(IQR), respectively. The interquartile range is often used to find outliers in data.