different between quantile vs vigintile

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

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)