The difference between Quintile and Tertile

When used as nouns, quintile means any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into five equally numerous subsets, whereas tertile 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. 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)

  1. Tertile 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. Tertile as a noun (statistics):

    Any one of the three groups so divided.

    Examples:

    "The first tertile results include January through April's revenues."

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