different between fractile vs quantile

English

Etymology 1

fraction +? -ile

Noun

fractile (plural fractiles)

1. (statistics) The value of a distribution for which some fraction of the sample lies below.

   The q-quantile is the same as the (1/q)-fractile.

   The median is the .5-fractile.

Translations

See also

• quantile

Etymology 2

fracture +? -ile

Adjective

fractile (comparative more fractile, superlative most fractile)

1. Describing the quality of a sedimentary stone as it relates to the sediments to cohesively bond without fracturing.

   A stone with a low fractile strength lacks tensile strength and will crack or crumble under stress or pressure.

Anagrams

• race lift

English

Etymology

Back-formation from quantity, modeled on percentile.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kw?n.ta?l/

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

See also

• fractile

Further reading

• quantile on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Quintela