Provide an Appropriate Response $Q _ { 3 } - Q _ { 2 }$

question 17

Essay

Provide an appropriate response.
-How does $Q _ { 3 } - Q _ { 2 }$ compare to $Q _ { 2 } - Q _ { 1 }$ for a distribution which is skewed to the right? for a distribution which is skewed to the left? for a uniform distribution? (The three quartiles of a data set from smallest to largest are denoted $\left. \mathrm { Q } _ { 1 } , \mathrm { Q } _ { 2 } , \mathrm { Q } _ { 3 } \right)$ .

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