The difference between Fractile and Quantile

When used as nouns, fractile means the value of a distribution for which some fraction of the sample lies below, whereas quantile means 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.

Fractile is also adjective with the meaning: describing the quality of a sedimentary stone as it relates to the sediments to cohesively bond without fracturing.

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  1. Fractile as a noun (statistics):

    The value of a distribution for which some fraction of the sample lies below.

    Examples:

    "The ''q''-quantile is the same as the ''(1/q)''-fractile."

    "The median is the .5-fractile."

  1. Fractile as an adjective:

    Describing the quality of a sedimentary stone as it relates to the sediments to cohesively bond without fracturing.

    Examples:

    "A stone with a low fractile strength lacks tensile strength and will crack or crumble under stress or pressure."

  1. Quantile as a 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.

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