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.
1 Interquartile range (IQR). 2  The middle half of a data set falls within the interquartile range. 3  In a boxplot, the interquartile range is represented by the width of the box (Q3 minus Q1). 4  In the chart above, the interquartile range is equal to 600 minus 300 or about 300.