quantile
nounUK /ˈkwɒntaɪl/
US /ˈkwɑːntaɪl/
A quantile is a point that splits a group of numbers into equal parts.
The teacher used a quantile to divide the test scores into four equal groups.
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2. In statistics, any of the values that divide a frequency distribution into equal-sized intervals.
The 90th quantile of the income data shows the level below which 90 percent of earners fall.
3. A value in a data set below which a given proportion of observations lies.
The 0.5 quantile is the median of the distribution.
4. A general term covering quartiles, deciles, and percentiles used in data analysis.
Analysts compared the quantiles of the two datasets to see how their spreads differed.