Terms used in official statistics

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Percentile


Definition:

Quantile of order k / 100 for k = 1, 2, ..., 99. For example, the fifth percentile means that 5% of the observations in the ordered statistical group are less than or equal to the fifth percentile, and 95% of the observations are equal to or greater than the value of the fifth percentile.


Low-level terms:

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