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Tukey's Five-number Summary in R Programming - fivenum() function

Last Updated : 01 Jul, 2020
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fivenum() function in R Language is used to return Tukey's five-number summary of input data i.e., minimum value, lower-hinge value, median value, upper-hinge value and maximum value of the input data.
Syntax: fivenum(x, na.rm = TRUE) Parameters: x: indicates numeric object na.rm: indicates logical value. If TRUE, NAs and NANs are dropped.
Example 1: r
# Create numeric data object
x <- seq(1, 13, by = 2)

# Show Tukey's five-number summary
fivenum(x)
Output:
[1]  1  4  7 10 13
Example 2: r
# Create numeric data object
x <- rnorm(1000)

# Show Tukey's five-number summary
fivenum(x)
Output:
[1] -2.97770299 -0.65995003 -0.04482463  0.70722486  2.99627903

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