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)

Translations

quantile in statistics

Catalan: quantil m
Czech: kvantil m
Finnish: kvantiili (fi)
French: quantile (fr) m

German: Quantil (de) n
Italian: quantile (it) m
Portuguese: quantil m
Spanish: cuantil m

See also

quantile on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
fractile

Anagrams

Quintela

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