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Multilingual Demographic Dictionary, second unified edition, English volume

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Latest revision as of 06:01, 5 February 2010

Decile  (DECILE)


If a series of observations is arranged in ascending order, values which have below them a certain proportion of the observations are referred to as quantiles 1 or order statistics 1 . The median (140-6) has been previously mentioned. Other important order statistics are the quartiles 2, the deciles 3, and the percentiles 4 or centiles 4, which divide the observations into four, ten and a hundred equal parts respectively. More...