Medical Definition of IMPRINTING. 1. : a rapid learning process that takes place early in the life of a social animal (as a greylag goose) and establishes a behavior pattern (as recognition of and attraction to its own kind or a substitute).2. : genomic imprinting.edical Definition of IMPRINTING. 1. : a rapid learning process that takes place early in the life of a social animal (as a greylag goose) and establishes a behavior pattern (as recognition of and attraction to its own kind or a substitute).
The IQR is the length of the box in your box-and-whisker plot. An outlier is any value that lies more than one and a half times the length of the box from either end of the box.
The Interquartile Range and Outliers. In the previous post, I introduced percentiles and quartiles and said that the Interquartile Range (IQR) is found by subtracting Q3 (the third quartile) minus Q1 (the first quartile).The IQR is significant because it tells us where the middle 50% of the numbers in the data set lie. Add the resulting number to Q3 to get an upper boundary for outliers. 2  Subtract the same resulting number (from #2) from Q1 to get a lower boundary for outliers. 3  If a number in the data set lies beyond either boundary, it is considered an outlier. 4  Q3 - Q1 = 88 - 80 = 8 (The IQR).