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PRIMEIRO QUARTIL

English translation: First quartile, 25th percentile

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Portuguese term or phrase:PRIMEIRO QUARTIL
English translation:First quartile, 25th percentile
Entered by: airmailrpl

09:00 Jun 18, 2005
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Mathematics & Statistics / Survey
Portuguese term or phrase: PRIMEIRO QUARTIL
From a statistical Analysis. Client's representative said that the term is the same in English. Just checking to see if that is true.

FIRST QUARTIL
airmailrpl
Brazil
Local time: 09:59
First quartile, 25th percentile
Explanation:
Além da referência, apoiado por minhas aulas com o Dr. Speed, Texas A&M University.

For a set of data, a number for which 25% of the data is less than that number. The first quartile is the same as the median of the data which are less than the overall median. Same as the 25th percentile.


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Note added at 19 mins (2005-06-18 09:20:23 GMT)
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Só como curiosidade, e para matar a saudade de uma ótima disciplina cursada:

http://www.stat.tamu.edu/info.php?mspeed

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Note added at 22 mins (2005-06-18 09:22:49 GMT)
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First quartile: also known as \"lower quartile\" (class notes)
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Henrique Serra
United States
Local time: 06:59
Grading comment
Thank you. I imagine I should have remembered this term from my days at Georgia Tech.. I used First quartile
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5 +6First quartile, 25th percentile
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First quartile, 25th percentile


Explanation:
Além da referência, apoiado por minhas aulas com o Dr. Speed, Texas A&M University.

For a set of data, a number for which 25% of the data is less than that number. The first quartile is the same as the median of the data which are less than the overall median. Same as the 25th percentile.


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Note added at 19 mins (2005-06-18 09:20:23 GMT)
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Só como curiosidade, e para matar a saudade de uma ótima disciplina cursada:

http://www.stat.tamu.edu/info.php?mspeed

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Note added at 22 mins (2005-06-18 09:22:49 GMT)
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First quartile: also known as \"lower quartile\" (class notes)


    Reference: http://www.mathwords.com/f/first_quartile.htm
Henrique Serra
United States
Local time: 06:59
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Thank you. I imagine I should have remembered this term from my days at Georgia Tech.. I used First quartile

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agree  jrb
11 mins
  -> Thanks, Jessica

agree  Deborah do Carmo
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agree  Henrique Magalhaes
1 hr
  -> obrigado, Henrique

agree  rhandler
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agree  Claudio Mazotti
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