Question

Write a Python function called FiveNumberSummary(myList) that takes as input a sorted list of numbers and calculates and displays a five-number summary of the list. Given a list of numbers, a five-number summary of the numbers is defined to be the following: Minimum, First Quartile, Median, Third Quartile, Maximum. The first and third quartiles are simply the median of the first half of the numbers and the median of the second half of the numbers.

Answer 1

Source Code in Python:

import numpy as np
def FiveNumbersSummary(myList):
print("Minimum :",myList[0]) #since list is sorted, first element will be smallest
print("First Quartile :",np.percentile(myList,25)) #25th percentile is also 1st quartile, so we use numpy to calculate 25th percentile
print("Median :",np.percentile(myList,50)) #50th percentile is also median, so we use numpy to calculate median
print("Second Quartile :",np.percentile(myList,75)) #75th percentile is also 3rd quartile, so we use numpy to calculate 75th percentile
print("Maximum :",myList[len(myList)-1]) #since list is sorted, last element will be largest
FiveNumbersSummary([1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]) #testing the function

Output: (refer to screenshot for indentations)