The difference between Quantile and Tercile

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 tercile means either of the two points that divide an ordered distribution into three parts, each containing a third of the population.

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  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.

  1. Tercile as a noun (statistics):

    Either of the two points that divide an ordered distribution into three parts, each containing a third of the population.

  2. Tercile as a noun (statistics):

    Any one of the three groups so divided.

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