ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Tertile

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Tertile is a noun meaning (statistics) Either of the two points that divide an ordered distribution into three parts, each containing a third of the population.

Meaning

(statistics) Either of the two points that divide an ordered distribution into three parts, each containing a third of the population.

More Meanings

  1. (statistics) Any one of the three groups so divided.

Example Sentences

The first tertile results include January through April's revenues.
To determine whether that’s been the case, I broke the league into tertiles at both ends of the floor and overall.
When we start testosterone therapy, the goal is typically to raise testosterone levels into the range of about 450 to 600 ng/dL, which is considered the “middle tertile” for most laboratory reference ranges.

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tercile, quartile, pentile, tripartition, third, thirding.

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