quantiles
/ˈkwɒn.taɪlz/
quantiles is the plural of quantile.
Meaning of quantile
Noun
quantile (plural quantiles)
- 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.
- 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...
Questions about quantiles
- What is quantiles the plural of?
- Quantiles is the plural of quantile.
- How do you pronounce quantiles?
- Quantiles is pronounced /ˈkwɒn.taɪlz/.
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