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quantile
/ˈkwɒn.taɪl/
noun
What it means
- mathematicsOne 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.
2011 January 31, Anil K. Bera, Aurobindo Ghosh, Zhijie Xiao, “FRACTILES ON QUANTILE REGRESSION WITH APPLICATIONS”, in Mathematics Subject Classification, archived from the original on 12 Sep 2025, page 18
In a sentence
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.
2011 January 31, Anil K. Bera, Aurobindo Ghosh, Zhijie Xiao, “FRACTILES ON QUANTILE REGRESSION WITH APPLICATIONS”, in Mathematics Subject Classification, archived from the original on 12 Sep 2025, page 18
Where it comes from
Back-formation from quantity, modeled on percentile. By surface analysis, quant(ity) + -ile.
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