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quantile

American

[kwon-tahyl, -til] / ˈkwɒn taɪl, -tɪl /

noun

Statistics.

one of the class of values of a variate that divides the total frequency of a sample or population into a given number of equal proportions.

1935–40; quant(ity) + -ile noun suffix, on the model of percentile

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One example of this approach is a quantile dot plot.

From Scientific American

A beta-mixture quantile normalization method for correcting probe design bias in Illumina Infinium 450 k DNA methylation data.

From Nature

We show the 68% quantile in all plots and 95% and 99.7% levels in the two-dimensional histograms.

From Nature

We quote the maximum posterior fit value and the 68% quantile range as uncertainty.

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