The difference between Quantile and Quartile
When used as nouns, 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, whereas quartile means any of the three points that divide an ordered distribution into four parts, each containing a quarter of the population.
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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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Quartile as a noun (statistics):
Any of the three points that divide an ordered distribution into four parts, each containing a quarter of the population.
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Quartile as a noun (statistics):
Any one of the four groups so divided.
Examples:
"This school is ranked in the first quartile."
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