quantile
See also: Quantile
English
Etymology
Back-formation from quantity, modeled on percentile.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkwɒn.taɪl/
Noun
quantile (plural quantiles)
- (statistics) One of the class of values of a variate which divides the members of a batch or sample into equal-sized subgroups of adjacent values or a probability distribution into distributions of equal probability.
Hyponyms
- (statistics):
- median (2-quantile), tercile/tertile (3), quartile (4), quintile (5), sextile (6), septile (7), octile (8), decile (10), hexadecile (16), ventile/vigintile (20), centile/percentile (100), millile (1000)
Translations
quantile in statistics
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