👉 In statistics, a quartile is a measure of central tendency used to group data into four equal parts. These are called quartiles because they divide the data set into four equal parts; the median is also considered a quartile. The first quartile (Q1) divides the data set into two halves with 25% of the data falling below it, and the third quartile (Q3) divides the data set into three halves with 75% of the data falling below