The accompanying data are a subset of data read from a graph in the paper Ladies

The accompanying data are a subset of data read from a graph in the paper €œ Ladies First? A Field Study of Discrimination in Coffee Shops€ (Applied Economics [April, 2008]). The data are wait times (in seconds) between ordering and receiving coffee for 19 female customers at a Boston coffee shop.

a. Compute and interpret the values of the median and interquartile range.
b. Explain why the median and interquartile range is an appropriate choice of summary measures to describe center and spread for this data set.

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