Fractile vs Quantile - What's the difference?
fractile | quantile |
(statistics) The value of a distribution for which some fraction of the sample lies below.
Describing the quality of a sedimentary stone as it relates to the sediments to cohesively bond without fracturing. A stone with a low fractile strength lacks tensile strength and will crack or crumble under stress or pressure.
(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.
In statistics terms the difference between fractile and quantile
is that fractile is the value of a distribution for which some fraction of the sample lies below while quantile is 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.As an adjective fractile
is describing the quality of a sedimentary stone as it relates to the sediments to cohesively bond without fracturing. A stone with a low fractile strength lacks tensile strength and will crack or crumble under stress or pressure.fractile
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Etymology 1
From fraction'' and ''-ileNoun
(en noun)- The q''-quantile is the same as the ''(1/q) -fractile .
- The median is the .5-fractile .
