Continuous Random Variable: Median, Quartiles and Percentiles

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How to calculate the median, lower and upper quartiles and percentiles for a continuous random variable?

Finding the Median, Quartiles, Percentiles from a pdf or cdf.
This tutorial shows you how to calculate the median, lower and upper quartiles and percentiles for a continuous random variable.

Example on finding the median and quartiles of a continuous random variable.
This video goes through a numerical example on finding the median and lower and upper quartiles of a continuous random variable from its probability density function.

Continuous Random Variables: Median

Continuous Random Variables: Probability Density Functions
This is the first in a sequence of tutorials about continuous random variables. I explain how to use probability density functions (PDFs).

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