Talk:Five-number summary

simpile as this
hello people lets say you have a paperthat gives you directions like this for an ex:find the five-number summary for each data set. then you look below and you mite find some numbers aranged like this (37,44,5,8,20,11,14). you then would do this min:5 lq:8 med:14 uq:37 max:44 that is basically all you have to do

R example
The R example in its current form is mistaken in a few different ways. Firstly, it seems the stated numbers reflect an incorrect calculation of the 1st and 3rd quartiles. Secondly, the  function in R currently uses the lower and upper hinge values, rather than the 1st and 3rd quartile values. I'm hesitant to correct it without some discussion as it introduces additional concepts in a way that might be confusing to the casual observer. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.112.234.206 (talk) 01:03, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I get different results from the example. R version is (3.1.3 2015-03-09)

> moons <- c(0, 0, 1, 2, 63, 61, 27, 13) > moons [1] 0  0  1  2 63 61 27 13     > fivenum(moons) [1] 0.0  0.5  7.5 44.0 63.0     > summary(moons) Min. 1st Qu. Median   Mean 3rd Qu. Max. 0.00   0.75    7.50   20.88   35.50   63.00
 * 98.192.39.79 (talk) 02:25, 8 April 2015 (UTC)