different between quantile vs quantize

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)

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See also

• fractile

Further reading

• quantile on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Quintela

English

Alternative forms

• quantise

Verb

quantize (third-person singular simple present quantizes, present participle quantizing, simple past and past participle quantized)

1. (transitive, physics) To limit the number of possible values of a quantity, or states of a system, by applying the rules of quantum mechanics
2. (transitive, telecommunications) To approximate a continuously varying signal by one whose amplitude can only have a set of discrete values
3. (transitive, music) To shift each beat in a rhythmic pattern to the nearest beat of a given resolution (eighth note, sixteenth note, etc.), or to adjust the frequency or pitch of a note to the nearest perfect tone in a given musical scale

Derived terms

• quantization

Descendants

• ? Spanish: cuantizar

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