Percentiles

Word PERCENTILES
Character 11
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Definitions and meanings of "Percentiles"

What do we mean by percentiles?

Any of the ninety-nine points that divide an ordered distribution into one hundred parts, each containing one per cent of the population.

Any one of the hundred groups so divided.

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The word "percentiles" in example sentences

The “greater social mobility” (which here seems to refer to income mobility) could just indicate that the income difference, say, between the 10th and 90th percentiles is much smaller, so a very small change in income can change one’s ranking dramatically. ❋ Unknown (2010)

While as absolute grading will be determined by the marks obtained by the students, it is the relative grading, also called percentiles, that will determine a child's place among others. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Identify the position of a data value in a data set using various measures of position, such as percentiles, deciles and quartiles. ❋ Guest25d353 (2010)

The only problem is, the incomes of the rich make the rest of the chart impossible to read: "The line gets much steeper because at the very top of the income scale, the monetary divisions between percentiles grow much greater," writes Rampell. ❋ Ezra Klein (2011)

The nearby table from the CBO report shows that in 2007 the average income tax rate paid by the 1% was 18.8%, compared to 4.2% for Americans in a broadly defined middle class from the 21st to 80th income percentiles. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Of course, these income numbers are going to change in 2008, since the recession surely hit the wealth of those in the top percentiles pretty hard. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Catherine Rampell asked the hardworking folks at the Tax Policy Center to estimate the paychecks that correspond to different income percentiles. ❋ Ezra Klein (2011)

One of Rothenberg's key signals: If Democratic incumbents see their support stuck in the low-40 percentiles — even if their challengers aren't faring better than that — Democrats should expect the worst from a disenchanted electorate. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Suppose that twenty-five or thirty years ago we had frozen the definition of middle-class income as the 25th through the 75th percentiles of the income distribution as of that date. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Colleges like to report their 25th and 75th percentile SAT scores, because it lets them to cram into the 1st to 24th percentiles their affirmative action admittees, jocks, and rich legacies, and USN&WR will never notice. tomemos Says: ❋ Unknown (2009)

Murray admits hard numbers are difficult to find -- "no survey has samples large enough to calibrate precisely what's going on with the top percentiles of the population," and he cites Bill Bishop's "The Big Sort," among other work. ❋ Stephen Stromberg (2010)

In Argentina, households between the 40th and 60th percentiles of income earners saw their share of the economic pie rise to 14.5% last year from 11.8% in 2003, according to the National University of La Plata and the World Bank. ❋ Matt Moffett (2011)

The real income of those at the 10th percentile fell by close to 10 per cent, those in the middle of the distribution by 5 per cent, and those at the near top of the distribution 90th and 95th percentiles by only one per cent. ❋ Andrew Sum (2011)

In order to discard unusual spikes in activity, when the billing rate was calculated the provider would lop off the measurements in the top five percentiles and bill the customer at the rate of the 95th percentile. ❋ Steven Levy (2011)

CSAP proficiency percentiles are based on all students taking the CSAP in DPS. ❋ Christopher Scott (2011)

Clearly, the top continuously pulls away from the pack, as can be seen by the lines for the 90th and 95th wage percentiles. ❋ Jared Bernstein (2011)

For example, if you look at the share of families in the 20th to 94th percentiles it fluctuated around 80% prior to 1980. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Funds posting returns between the 25th and 50th percentiles are yielding an average of 2%. ❋ Tom Lauricella (2011)

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