QUARTILE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quartile mean? 

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

1. (statistics) any of three points that divide an ordered distribution into four parts each containing one quarter of the scores

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUARTILE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(statistics) any of three points that divide an ordered distribution into four parts each containing one quarter of the scores

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("quartile" 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)

 Context examples 

The box contains the values between the upper quartile and lower quartile, or 50% of the distribution.

(Box Plot, NCI Thesaurus)

The difference between the 3d and 1st quartiles is called the interquartile range and it is used as a measure of variability (dispersion).

(Interquartile Range, NCI Thesaurus)

For the highest quartile of pre-diagnosis Western dietary pattern, which is characterized by high intakes of red meat and other animal products, there was a 30% higher risk of CRC death compared with the lowest quartile.

(Healthy Diets Have Better Impact on Colorectal Cancer, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

And, in those blood samples, people who had gotten TB were much more likely to have been vitamin A deficient or to be in the lower two quartiles of vitamin A level, so not even technically vitamin A deficient, but just lower than ... people who didn’t get TB. ...

(Vitamin A Supplement May Thwart Tuberculosis Infection, Jessica Berman/VOA)

Specifically, compared to those in the lowest quartile intake, those in the highest quartile intake of red meat and poultry had a 23 per cent and 15 per cent increase in risk of diabetes, respectively, while the intake of fish/shellfish was not associated with risk of diabetes.

(Eating Meat Linked to Higher Risk of Diabetes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A graphical display of the distribution of a set of data using the median, quartiles, and the extremes of the data set.

(Box Plot, NCI Thesaurus)