percentile


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
percentile /pəˈsɛntʌɪl/
noun Statistics each of the 100 equal groups into which a population can be divided according to the distribution of values of a particular variable.

■ each of the 99 intermediate values of a random variable which divide a frequency distribution into 100 such groups.

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