Timeline for Percentile vs quantile vs quartile
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| Nov 15, 2020 at 6:19 | comment | added | Bernhard Barker | Quartile relates to quarters, i.e. out of 4. Pencentile relates to percentages, i.e. out of 100. Quantile ... is just there to confuse you (it relates to quantity). | |
| Feb 7, 2019 at 0:38 | history | protected | kjetil b halvorsen♦ | ||
| Jan 16, 2019 at 16:43 | comment | added | Nick Cox | My answer at stats.stackexchange.com/questions/235330/… has a fuller list of *ile terms, including dates of first use. Naturally additions and earlier sightings (citings!) are welcome. | |
| Jun 13, 2015 at 20:32 | answer | added | I Like to Code | timeline score: 35 | |
| Jun 13, 2015 at 17:59 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackStats/status/609782127513706497 | ||
| Jun 13, 2015 at 17:22 | comment | added | Nick Cox | The quantiles are defined as points. There is often ambiguity as between intervals and points for quartiles etc.; it does not bite very hard in practice, as context usually makes clear what is intended. I prefer the first quarter (rather than quartile), for the lowest 25%, etc. although it's too much to hope that the distinction will be universally self-evident without explanation. | |
| Jun 13, 2015 at 14:20 | comment | added | Henry | A deeper question is whether quantiles etc. are intervals or points. | |
| Jun 13, 2015 at 12:25 | answer | added | stochazesthai | timeline score: 201 | |
| Jun 13, 2015 at 12:24 | answer | added | rnso | timeline score: 24 | |
| Jun 13, 2015 at 11:28 | answer | added | Peter Flom | timeline score: 70 | |
| Jun 13, 2015 at 11:25 | history | asked | luciano | CC BY-SA 3.0 |