decile
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- noun
- /ˈdɛsaɪl/
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decilo
- The share of spending by households in the lowest four deciles decreased, although only from 16.7 to 16.5 percent (Medina 1996, 80-82).
- lowest decile
- wealth decile
- highest decile
And so it's great if you are in the top decile for those things for either sex.
- And so it's great if you are in the top decile for those things for either sex.
Examples
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In a recent study, the participants were divided into deciles based on their test scores.
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The upside benefit is that achieving performance in the top two deciles of hospitals participating in the pilot will provide a bonus of higher Medicare reimbursement.
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And so it's great if you are in the top decile for those things for either sex.
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Our objective is to stay in the top decile of fund performance.
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The income share of the top decile of US earners in 2007 was 49.7%.
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However, pointing to the bottom decile of public schools and claiming they're the norm is lying.
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Observed outcomes were compared to predicted outcomes based on deciles of risk, generating a summary measure of the differences.
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Michael Lipton cites Raghav Gaiha, who has found substantial mobility in and out of the two or three lowest deciles.
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The common practice of using fractiles of income recipients—deciles, quintiles, or quartiles—has its uses, but also has serious defects.
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In country B, whose average monthly income of $1,500 per person is 50 percent higher, the poorest decile of the population possesses only 1 percent of the nation's wealth; the middle eight deciles possess 14 percent; and the wealthiest decile, 85 percent.
Academic text (2002)
How Fine
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Surface Forms
Morphology
decile = deci- (semi-transparent) = deci + ile
Built from the combining form 'deci-' meaning 'ten' plus the nominal/derivational '-ile'; the numeric combining form is technical and not a common standalone word, so the relation is only partly clear to average learners.
Etymology
Decile comes from the Latin root dec- and decem meaning 'ten', the same root you see in decimal and decade. In statistics a decile is one of ten equal parts of a set of data, so the origin helps you remember it means a 'one-tenth' part.