Meanings
nounquantile (plural quantiles)
plural quantiles
- 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
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Origin
Back-formation from quantity, modeled on percentile. By surface analysis, quant(ity) + -ile.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan quantil
- quantilquantile in statistics
Czech kvantil
- kvantilquantile in statistics
Dutch kwantiel
- kwantielquantile in statistics
Finnish kvantiili
- kvantiiliquantile in statistics
French quantile
- quantilequantile in statistics
German Quantil
- Quantilquantile in statistics
Italian quantile
- quantilequantile in statistics
Polish kwantyl
- kwantylquantile in statistics
Portuguese quantil
- quantilquantile in statistics
Russian кванти́ль
- кванти́ль (kvantílʹ)quantile in statistics
Spanish cuantil
- cuantilquantile in statistics
Ukrainian кванти́ль
- кванти́ль (kvantýlʹ)quantile in statistics
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APA
quantile. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quantile
MLA
“quantile.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quantile. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “quantile,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quantile.
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