Quantile meaning

kwäntīl, kwäntil
The definition of a quantile is a portion of a total amount divided into subgroups.

An example of a quantile is a class being divided into ten groups based on the exact percentage of each student's grade; a 60% quantile would be all students who received a grade of 60-69%.

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Any of the values of a random variable dividing the distribution of the individuals into a given number of groups of equal frequency.
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(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.
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Quantile Sentence Examples

  • quantile regression allows the measurement of the return to player Players.

  • quantile regression functions to examine how the return to schooling varies across the conditional distribution of earnings.

  • quantile plots.

  • quantile restrictions.

  • Application of the analog principle leads to quantile regression based interval estimators of values and partial differences of structural functions.

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