ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Quantile

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˈkwɒn.taɪl/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Quantile is a noun meaning (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.

Meaning

(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.

Example Sentences

It should be noted that quantile regression controls for the quantiles of the y variable, and not of the original covariate i.e. the x variable.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include percentilation, frequentile, vigintile, class, expectile, level.

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