Calculation
In calculation of the IQM, only the interquartile range is used, and the lowest 25% and the highest 25% of the scores are discarded. These points are called the first and third quartiles, hence the name of the IQM. (Note that the second quartile is also called the median).
assuming the values have been ordered.
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