percentile
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Etymology edit
Coined by Francis Galton in 1885, from percent + -ile.
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percentile (plural percentiles)
- (statistics) Any of the ninety-nine points that divide an ordered distribution into one hundred parts, each containing one per cent of the population.
- (statistics) Any one of the hundred groups so divided.
- She is highly intelligent—she has an IQ in the top percentile.
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When comparing performance, a higher percentile is better; to be in the "90th percentile" is to have performed better than 90% of the rest of the group.
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- (statistics): median (2-quantile), tercile/tertile (3), quartile (4), quintile (5), sextile (6), septile (7), octile (8), decile (10), hexadecile (16), ventile/vigintile (20), centile/percentile (100), millile (1000)
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any of the ninety-nine points
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any one of the hundred groups so divided
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percentile m (plural percentili)