The difference between Percentile and Quantile

When used as nouns, percentile means any of the ninety-nine points that divide an ordered distribution into one hundred parts, each containing one per cent of the population, 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.

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  1. Percentile as a noun (statistics):

    Any of the ninety-nine points that divide an ordered distribution into one hundred parts, each containing one per cent of the population.

  2. Percentile as a noun (statistics):

    Any one of the hundred groups so divided.

    Examples:

    "He is highly intelligent – he has an IQ in the top percentile."

  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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