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Timeline for Percentile vs quantile vs quartile

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Mar 16, 2018 at 2:00 history edited rnso CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jun 13, 2015 at 17:18 comment added Nick Cox I don't participate in writing Wikipedia. Anyone so minded is welcome to add "octile" there.
Jun 13, 2015 at 17:18 history edited rnso CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jun 13, 2015 at 17:17 comment added Nick Cox Thanks for the edit. I don't think these symbols are anything like standard or even well-chosen; the collective result is just alphabet soup even though it is unlikely that many would be used together. In particular, using $P$ or $Pr$ for anything but a probability is a terrible idea. Who wants to have to remember which way round $Q$ and $Qu$ are?
Jun 13, 2015 at 17:06 comment added rnso I have added it to my answer. You may also add it to wikipedia page.
Jun 13, 2015 at 17:05 history edited rnso CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jun 13, 2015 at 16:50 comment added Nick Cox I've seen also reference to octiles (8). This list is the best argument for the single term quantiles that can be imagined.
Jun 13, 2015 at 16:49 history edited Nick Cox CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jun 13, 2015 at 12:24 history answered rnso CC BY-SA 3.0