#2262 type of quartile not specified in stats summary

[Daniel Molina García]

Tested in 5.2.8. Command stats produces a summary. This summary print 2 quartiles under the same label Quartile. For example:

[...]
  Minimum:          -10.0000 [10]
  Maximum:            2.0000 [ 2]
  Quartile:          -8.0000 
  Median:            -5.0000 
  Quartile:           0.0000 

I think it would be better to distinguish them.

[Ethan Merritt]

Huh? How could it possibly be ambiguous?
FWIW the corresponding exported quantities are

 STATS_lo_quartile       # value of the lower (1st) quartile boundary
 STATS_median            # median value
 STATS_up_quartile       # value of the upper (3rd) quartile boundary

[Daniel Molina García]

My point is about the labels in the summary, no the name of the variables.
As far as I have read, documentation says

In addition to printed output, the program stores the individual statistics
into three sets of variables.

Then it appears the description of the variables (in particular what you quoted), but it is not said that the order of the lines in the summary correspond with the same order than the description of the variables in the documentation.

[Daniel Molina García]

Maybe you wanted to say that according to the mathematical properties of the quartile, there can be no confusion. With respect to that, I would expect that determining which is the value associated to a property should be as easier as possible, independently of the expertise of the user. On the other hand, I think that fields should have unique identifiers in general, avoiding the need of consulting external documentation.

I think I exposed my reasons. I will not insist more.

[Ethan Merritt]

I think that in a table of min max median and quartile values there is no ambiguity about the ordering of values.