quantile

See also: Quantile

English

Etymology

Back-formation from quantity, modeled on percentile. By surface analysis, quant(ity) +‎ -ile.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwɒn.taɪl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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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), millile (1000)

Derived terms

• interquantile

Translations

quantile in statistics

Catalan: quantil m Czech: kvantil m Dutch: kwantiel n Finnish: kvantiili (fi) French: quantile (fr) m German: Quantil (de) n Italian: quantile (it) m Polish: kwantyl (pl) m Portuguese: quantil m Romanian: please add this translation if you can Russian: кванти́ль (ru) m (kvantílʹ) Spanish: cuantil m Ukrainian: кванти́ль m (kvantýlʹ)

See also

• fractile

Further reading

• quantile on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• quintale, Quintela, Talnique