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quantile vs. percentile

quantile

noun

Statistics.
  1. 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.

percentile

noun

  1. one of the values of a variable that divides the distribution of the variable into 100 groups having equal frequencies:

    Ninety percent of the values lie at or below the ninetieth percentile, ten percent above it.

adjective

  1. of or relating to a percentile or a division of a distribution by percentiles.