quantile

American

[kwon-tahyl, -til] / ˈkwɒn taɪl, -tɪl /

noun

Statistics.

one of the class of values of a variate that divides the total frequency of a sample or population into a given number of equal proportions.

Etymology

Origin of quantile

1935–40; quant(ity) + -ile noun suffix, on the model of percentile

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The statistics Parker cites put U.S. students in the top quantile.

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026

Read counts were scaled by library size, quantile normalized and precision weights were calculated using the voom R package38.

From Nature ● Mar. 28, 2017

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