Fractile
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Fractile is a noun meaning (statistics) The value of a distribution for which some fraction of the sample lies below.
Meaning
(statistics) The value of a distribution for which some fraction of the sample lies below.
More Meanings
- Describing the quality of a sedimentary stone as it relates to the sediments to cohesively bond without fracturing.
Example Sentences
The median is the .5-fractile.
The q-quantile is the same as the (1/q)-fractile.
A stone with a low fractile strength lacks tensile strength and will crack or crumble under stress or pressure.
Most of the three- and four-story white-washed buildings that we passed were built of pink coraline, which is both plentiful and fractile, and date back centuries to when Omanis and Indians based on Zanzibar dominated the African East Coast trade.
Word Forms
- fractiles
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include fractionality, subfractal, fraction, subfraction, subdistribution, minimum.
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