measures of quartile dispersion

Positional measure of dispersion based on quartiles is called quartile deviation.
The difference between the lowest and the highest of the observations of the group is called the inter-quartile range.
The relative measure of dispersion based on quartiles is called the co-efficient of quartile deviation.
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