quartile
- noun
- /ˈkwɔrˌtaɪl/
- Specialized
- The first quartile contains the lowest 25% of test scores from the group.
- lower quartile
- highest quartile
- upper quartile
If you look at the countries that are leading in terms of how they are young people are doing, their teacher corps largely comes from the top quartile of college graduates.
- If you look at the countries that are leading in terms of how they are young people are doing, their teacher corps largely comes from the top quartile of college graduates.
- You start going through the quartiles and is it obvious?
- So it's simple, all you need is those top quartile teachers.
- Yeah, and I am maybe in the lower quartile of popularity.
- So that's why I studied a lot of, you know, this quartile stuff.
- The people who actually make the most money have a lower IQ than the the quartile right underneath them.
- So, but what you do find, and this is also part of the reporting, is people in the top quarter a quartile of income.
- So the average moves up to the the top quartile from the today's average to the top quartile today.
Examples
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Small farms fell in the lowest quartile of annual sales for their respective commodity (crop or livestock).
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Students in the second highest performance quartile outperformed those in the highest quartile.
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People in the bottom quartile will quite often think that they are actually much higher up than than they are.
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So it's simple, all you need is those top quartile teachers.
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The mean number of hits by quartile is presented as Table 2.
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The rectangles indicate the range from the lower quartile to the upper quartile.
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The low-exposure category was selected from the lowest quartile of this distribution.
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The mean hits of the three highest performance quartiles did not differ significantly.
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The mean PTCPA and PTIPA scores by quartile appear in Table 3.
Academic text (1996) -
For each of the numerical values, we see the min, first quartile, median, mean, third quartile and maximum values in that variable.
Synonyms
A value that divides a group of numbers into equal parts, for example quartiles or percentiles
Compounds
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Half the distance between the top and bottom values of the middle half of a set of numbers
How Fine
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Quartile comes from the Latin root quart- (from quartus) meaning 'fourth', the same idea in the familiar word quarter which is 'one of four parts'. So a quartile is one of the four equal parts that divide a set of values, each representing a 'quarter' of the data.