tercile

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A form of tertile — Either of the two points that divide an ordered distribution into three parts, each containing a third of the population.

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Meanings

nountercile (plural terciles)

plural terciles

  1. alternativeAlternative form of tertile.

    We estimate markups following the production-function approach proposed by De Loecker and Warzynski (2012) […] and then classify firms in the top tercile of the markup distribution as high-markup firms and firms in the bottom tercile as low-markup firms.

    2025 January 28, Niklas Amberg, Richard Friberg, Chad Syverson, “Have We Got News For You: Firm-Level Evidence on the Optimal Choice of Expected Capacity Utilization”, in NBER Working Papers, number 33400, page 16

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