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Definition of Percentiles
1. percentile [n] - See also: percentile
Lexicographical Neighbors of Percentiles
Literary usage of Percentiles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to the Theory of Statistics by George Udny Yule (1919)
"THE SIMPLER CASES OF SAMPLING FOR VARIABLES: percentiles AND MEAN. 1-2. ...
Special values for the percentiles of a normal distribution—5. ..."
2. The Mentality of the Criminal Woman: A Comparative Study of the Criminal by Clara Jean Weidensall, Katharine Bement Davis (1916)
"percentiles, Quartile Variation and Limiting Scores 99 23.—Memory for 8-Place
Numbers. percentiles, Quartile Variation and Limiting Scores 100 24. ..."
3. Base SAS(R) 9.1.3 Procedures Guide, Second Edition, Volumes 1-4 by Sas Institute (2006)
"You can specify percentiles with the expression start TO stop BY increment where
start is a starting number, stop is an ending number, and increment is a ..."
4. The Picture Completion Test by Rudolf Pintner, Margaret M. Anderson (1917)
"The other percentiles show an almost steady increase from age to age, although this
... The curves of the percentiles for each age are shown in Figure 14. ..."
5. Manual of Mental and Physical Tests: In Two Parts : a Book of Directions by Guy Montrose Whipple (1915)
"There is also a drop in the upper percentiles of 15-year-old girls that is
difficult of explanation unless there has been some accidental selection of poor ..."
6. The State Of Mathematics Achievement: Naep's 1990 Assessment Of The Nation by Ina V. S. Mullis (2004)
"... of performance within each grade exceeded the range across the grades at any
one percentile. TABLE 1.2 percentiles of Overall Mathematics Proficiency ..."
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