The five-number summary of a dataset consists of its minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum, listed in that order. It gives a compact description of location, spread, and skewness and provides the values used to construct a box-and-whisker plot.
Five-Number Summary
See also
Box-and-Whisker Plot, Interquartile Range, Median, Quartile, RangeExplore with Wolfram|Alpha
References
Tukey, J. W. Exploratory Data Analysis. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1977.Cite this as:
Weisstein, Eric W. "Five-Number Summary." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Five-NumberSummary.html