Quantile is a coordinate term of tercile.
Quantile is a hyponym of tercile.
In statistics terms the difference between tercile and quantile
is that tercile is any one of the three groups so divided 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.
tercile
English
Noun
(
en noun)
(statistics) Any of the two points that divide an ordered distribution into three parts, each containing a third of the population.
(statistics) Any one of the three groups so divided.
Synonyms
* tertile
Coordinate terms
* quantile
** centile/percentile
** vigintile
** duodecile
** decile
** nonile
** octile
** septile
** sextile
** quintile
** quartile
** tercile/tertile
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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)
