The quantile or probit function, as you can see from the link (see "Computatuon"), is computed with inverse gaussian error function which I hope is downloadable for calculators like TI-89. Look here for instance.
The quantile or probit function, as you can see from the link (see "Computatuon"), is computed with inverse gaussian error function which I hope is downloadable for calculators like TI-89. Look here for instance.
2nd Vars (Distr)>"InvNorm" next you subtract 1-% and enter this into your Inverse Norm along with your Mean and standard deviation.
Ex: Find the third quartile Q3 which is the IQ score separating the top 25% from the others. With a Mean of 100 and a Standard Deviation of 15.
1-.25=.75 in Inv Norm (.75,100,15)=110 My answer is 110
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You can check Wan et al. (2014)*. They build on Bland (2014) to estimate these parameters according to the data summaries available. See scenario C3 in their paper :
$$ \bar{X} ≈ \frac {q_{1} + m + q_{3}}{3}$$
$$ S ≈ \frac {q_{3} - q_{1}}{1.35}$$
or, if you have the sample size :
$$ S ≈ \frac {q_{3} - q_{1}}{2 \Phi^{-1}\left(\frac{0.75n-0.125}{n+0.25}\right) }$$
where is the first quartile,
the median,
is the 3rd quartile and
the upper zth percentile of the standard normal
distribution.
So, in R :
q1 <- 0.02
q3 <- 0.04
n <- 100
(s <- (q3 - q1) / (2 * (qnorm((0.75 * n - 0.125) / (n + 0.25)))))
#[1] 0.0150441
* Wan, Xiang, Wenqian Wang, Jiming Liu, and Tiejun Tong. 2014. “Estimating the Sample Mean and Standard Deviation from the Sample Size, Median, Range And/or Interquartile Range.” BMC Medical Research Methodology 14 (135). doi:10.1186/1471-2288-14-135.
Adding to Michael Chernick's comment, here's an example.
x <- runif(1000,0,1)
summary(x) #1st Q = 0.27 3rd = 0.77 mean = .51
x1 <- c(x,100)
summary(x1) #1Q = 0.27 3rd = 0.77 mean = .61
x2 <- c(rnorm(100,0,1), rnorm(10,10,.1))
summary(x2) # 1st = -.85 3rd = 0.69, mean = 0.71
With the first pair, note that a single outlier affects the mean but not the quartiles. The last example is one where the mean is larger than the 3rd quartile.
One real world case where the mean could be greater than the third quartile is income.
Possibly really dumb question, but say the average on a test was 86% with a SD of 2.3%, does that mean everyone who scored lower than 1 SD away is in 3rd quartile and everyone who scored 2 SD or lower is in 4th quartile?
Or do SD and quartiles not really correlate?