IQR function is added

maths/inter_quartile_range.py

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+"""
+This is the implementation of inter_quartile range (IQR).
+
+function takes the list of numeric values as input
+and return the IQR as output.
+
+Script inspired from its corresponding Wikipedia article
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interquartile_range
+"""
+
+import numpy as np
+
+
+def find_median(x: np.array) -> float:
+    """
+    This is the implementation of median.
+    :param x: The list of numeric values
+    :return: Median of the list
+    >>> find_median(x=np.array([1,2,2,3,4]))
+    2
+
+    >>> find_median(np.array([1,2,2,3,4,4]))
+    2.5
+
+
+    """
+    length = len(x)
+    if length % 2:
+        return x[length // 2]
+    return float((x[length // 2] + x[(length // 2) - 1]) / 2)
+
+
+def inter_quartile_range(x: np.array) -> float:
+    """
+    This is the implementation of inter_quartile
+    range for a list of numeric.
+    :param x: The list of data point
+    :return: Inter_quartile range
+
+    >>> inter_quartile_range(x=np.array([4,1,2,3,2]))
+    2.0
+
+    >>> inter_quartile_range(x=np.array([25,32,49,21,37,43,27,45,31]))
+    18.0
+    """
+    length = len(x)
+    if length == 0:
+        raise ValueError
+    x.sort()
+    q1 = find_median(x[0 : length // 2])
+    half_length = (length // 2) + 1 if length % 2 else length // 2
+    q3 = find_median(x[half_length:length])
+    return q3 - q1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    import doctest
+
+    doctest.testmod()