different between octile vs vigintile

English

Noun

octile (plural octiles)

1. (statistics) Any of the quantiles that divide an ordered sample population into eight equally numerous subsets.
2. (statistics, by extension) A subset thus obtained.
3. (astronomy) An octant.

Synonyms

• octant

Hypernyms

• quantile

Coordinate terms

• (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

Anagrams

• citole

English

Etymology

From Latin viginti (“twenty”) + -ilis (“forming adjectives”)

Noun

vigintile (plural vigintiles)

1. (statistics) Any of the values in a series that divides the distribution of individuals in that series into twenty groups of equal frequency.
2. Any one of the twenty groups so divided.

Hypernyms

• quantile

Coordinate terms

• (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)