quantile

noun
/ˈkwɒn.taɪl/

Etymology

Back-formation from quantity, modeled on percentile. By surface analysis, quant(ity) + -ile.

Definitions

  1. One of the class of values of a variate which divides the members of a batch or sample…

    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.

    • It should be noted that quantile regression controls for the quantiles of the y variable, and not of the original covariate i.e. the x variable.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for quantile. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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