quantile

See also: Quantile

English

Etymology

Back-formation from quantity, modeled on percentile.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwɒn.taɪl/

Noun

quantile (plural quantiles)

1. (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
• Dutch: kwantiel n
• Finnish: kvantiili (fi)
• French: quantile (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Quantil (de) n
• Italian: quantile (it) m
• Portuguese: quantil m
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: cuantil m

See also

• fractile

Further reading

• quantile on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Quintela