quantile — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

1. One 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.

   Verwandte Wörter

   fractile

   Unterbegriffe

   median (2-quantile)terciletertilequartilepentilequintilesextileseptileoctiledecilehexadecileventilevigintilecentilepercentile (100)millilepermillile (1000)

   Beispiele

   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.