The difference between Quartile and Quintile

When used as nouns, quartile means any of the three points that divide an ordered distribution into four parts, each containing a quarter of the population, whereas quintile means any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into five equally numerous subsets.

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  1. 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.

  2. Quartile as a noun (statistics):

    Any one of the four groups so divided.

    Examples:

    "This school is ranked in the first quartile."

  1. Quintile as a noun (statistics):

    Any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into five equally numerous subsets.

  2. Quintile as a noun (by extension):

    A subset thus obtained.

  3. Quintile as a noun (astrology):

    An aspect of planets that are distant from each other by one fifth of a zodiac (72)

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