The difference between Quintile and Ventile

When used as nouns, quintile means any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into five equally numerous subsets, whereas ventile means any of the nineteen points that divide an ordered distribution into twenty parts, each containing one twentieth 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. Ventile as a noun (statistics):

    Any of the nineteen points that divide an ordered distribution into twenty parts, each containing one twentieth of the population.

  2. Ventile as a noun (statistics):

    Any one of the twenty groups so divided.

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