Fractile vs Null - What's the difference?
fractile | null |
(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.
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between fractile and null
is that fractile is (statistics) the value of a distribution for which some fraction of the sample lies below while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.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
English
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 .
See also
* quantileEtymology 2
From fracture'' and ''-ileAdjective
(en adjective)null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.