interquartile_range¶

pyhelpers.ops.interquartile_range(num_dat)[source]¶

Calculate the interquartile range (IQR) of numerical data.

This function can serve as an alternative to scipy.stats.iqr.

Parameters:: num_dat (numpy.ndarray | list | tuple) – Array-like object containing numerical data.
Returns:: Interquartile range of num_dat.
Return type:: float

Examples:

>>> from pyhelpers.ops import interquartile_range
>>> data = list(range(100))
>>> iqr_result = interquartile_range(data)
>>> iqr_result
49.5