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1. A measure of position determines the position of a single value in relation to other values in a sample or a population data set. Unlike the mean and the standard deviation, descriptive measures based on quantiles are not sensitive to the influence of a few extreme observations.
2Measures of Position
Statisticians often talk about the position of a value, relative to other values in a set of data. The most common measures of position are percentiles, quartiles, and standard scores (aka, z-scores).
