DECILE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does decile mean? 

• DECILE (noun)
  The noun DECILE has 1 sense:

1. (statistics) any of nine points that divided a distribution of ranked scores into equal intervals where each interval contains one-tenth of the scores

  Familiarity information: DECILE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DECILE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(statistics) any of nine points that divided a distribution of ranked scores into equal intervals where each interval contains one-tenth of the scores

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("decile" is a kind of...):

grade; mark; score (a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance))

Domain category:

statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)