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Quantile vs Quantize - What's the difference?

quantile | quantize |

As a noun 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 a verb quantize is

to limit the number of possible values of a quantity, or states of a system, by applying the rules of quantum mechanics.

quantile

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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.

    • Hyponyms

    * (statistics) median (2-quantile), tercile/tertile (3), quartile (4), quintile (5), sextile (6), decile (10), vigintiles (20), percentile (100), permilles (1000)

    See also

    * (wikipedia "quantile") * fractile

    quantize

    English

    Verb

    (quantiz)
  • (physics) To limit the number of possible values of a quantity, or states of a system, by applying the rules of quantum mechanics
  • (telecommunications) To approximate a continuously varying signal by one whose amplitude can only have a set of discrete values
  • (music) To shift each beat in a rhythmic pattern to the nearest beat of a given resolution (eighth note, sixteenth note, etc.), or to adjust the frequency or pitch of a note to the nearest perfect tone in a given musical scale

    • Derived terms

    * quantization