The difference between Quintile and Vigintile

When used as nouns, quintile means any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into five equally numerous subsets, whereas vigintile means any of the values in a series that divides the distribution of individuals in that series into twenty groups of equal frequency.

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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. Vigintile as a noun (statistics):

    Any of the values in a series that divides the distribution of individuals in that series into twenty groups of equal frequency.

  2. Vigintile as a noun:

    Any one of the twenty groups so divided.

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