decile









decile


noun Statistics.

  1. one of the values of a variable that divides the distribution of the variable into ten groups having equal frequencies.

noun

  1. statistics
    1. one of nine actual or notional values of a variable dividing its distribution into ten groups with equal frequencies: the ninth decile is the value below which 90% of the population lieSee also percentile
    2. a tenth part of a distribution
adj.

1670s in astrology; 1882 in statistics; from French décile or Medieval Latin *decilis, from Latin decem “ten” (see ten) on the model of quintilis, sextilis.

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