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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): (file)

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.
- 2011 January 31, Anil K. Bera, Aurobindo Ghosh, Zhijie Xiao, “FRACTILES ON QUANTILE REGRESSION WITH APPLICATIONS”, in Mathematics Subject Classification‎^[1], archived from the original on 12 September 2025, page 18:
  It should be noted that quantile regression controls for the quantiles of the y variable, and not of the original covariate i.e. the x variable.

Hyponyms

(statistics):
quantilesedit
- median (2-quantile)
- tercile/tertile (3)
- quartile (4)
- pentile/quintile (5)
- sextile (6)
- septile (7)
- octile (8)
- decile (10)
- hexadecile (16)
- ventile/vigintile (20)
- centile/percentile (100)
- millile/permillile (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

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