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vigintile

vigintile noun: any of the values in a series that divides the distribution of individuals in that series into twenty groups of equal frequency.

Noun

vigintile (plural vigintiles)

  1. Any of the values in a series that divides the distribution of individuals in that series into twenty groups of equal frequency.
  2. Any one of the twenty groups so divided.
    • Chart 4 examines the changes in vigintile ( 1/20th or 5% ) for the SIMD and the domains between the 2006 and 2009 SIMD publications. Vigintiles are bands of 5%, ie vigintile 1 is the 5% most deprived and combining the first three vigintiles is the 15% most deprived datazones in Scotland. […] No...2009 November, “Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation”, in Dundee City Council, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2024, pages 4-5
    • We categorised income into vigintiles by sex and cohort. […] In addition, we estimated the absolute income level of each vigintile by adjusting for inflation using the consumer price index with 2020 as the index year, and by calculating the within-vigintile mean income.2024 April 16, Klara Gurzo et al., “One generation apart: Individual income and life expectancy in two Swedish cohorts born before and after the expansion of the welfare state”, in Scandinavian...

Forms of vigintile

pluralvigintiles

Origin of vigintile

From Latin vīgintī (“twenty”) + -ilis (adjective-forming suffix), equivalent to viginti- + -ile.

Questions about vigintile

What does vigintile mean?
Vigintile means any of the values in a series that divides the distribution of individuals in that series into twenty groups of equal frequency.
What part of speech is vigintile?
Vigintile is a noun.
What is the plural of vigintile?
The plural of vigintile is vigintiles.

Words near vigintile in the dictionary

  1. vigilous
  2. vigils
  3. vigily
  4. vigintennial
  5. viginti-
  6. vigintile
  7. vigintiles
  8. vigintillion
  9. vigintillions
  10. vigintillionth
  11. vigintillionths

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