Answer to Question #337634 in Statistics and Probability for shimmy

Question

2. What do you call the ninety-nine score points which divide a distribution into one hundred equal parts? M. decile T. percentile A. median H. quartile

Answer 1

Answer:

percentile: a measure used in statistics indicating the value below which a given percentage of observations in a group of observations fall. For example, the 20th percentile is the value (or score) below which 20% of the observations may be found.