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
- (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.
Word Forms
- tertiles
- tercile
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include tercile, quartile, pentile, tripartition, third, thirding.
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