Pentile
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pentile is a noun meaning (statistics) Any one of the five groups.
Meaning
(statistics) Any one of the five groups.
More Meanings
- To divide into pentiles.
- (statistics) Any of the four points that divide an ordered distribution into five parts, each containing a fifth (20%) of the population. Used commonly for income distributions.
- Obsolete form of pantile (“type of roof tile”).
Example Sentences
Her income placed her in the lowest pentile of the income distribution.
Apply pentiling to streamflows at all hydro plant locations from American Falls to Brownlee inflow (i.e. years comprising a pentile at Brownlee are those comprising the pentile at all locations)
high (30) & very high (10) pentiles not analyzed in IRP Apply pentiling to streamflows at all hydro plant locations from American Falls to Brownlee inflow (i.e. years comprising a pentile at Brownlee are those comprising the pentile at all locations)
Word Forms
- pentiles
- pentiling
- pentiled
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include tertile, quintile, ventile, quartile, tercile, percentile.
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