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percentile,
the 100th part of a statistical distribution. A percentile rank of 80 indicates that 20% of the total number of cases scored above and 80% scored below in whatever characteristics were being studied.

percentile [per-sen´tīl]
any one of the 99 values that divide the range of a probability distribution or sample into 100 intervals of equal probability or frequency; for example, 45 per cent of a population scores below the 45th percentile.

percentile,
n the number in a frequency distribution below which a certain percentage of fees will fall. E.g., the ninetieth percentile is the number that divides the distribution of fees into the lower 90% and the upper 10%, or that fee level at which 90% of dental professionals charge that amount or less and 10% charge more.

percentile
1. one of 100 equal parts of a series of measurements, each group being of equal size, and arranged in order of their magnitude; the 20th percentile is the value in the series below which 20% of the values fall.
2. the dividing points between such groups.


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32 per cent in the first nine months of this year, is ranked in the 98th percentile of the Bloomberg Index, putting it in the top 10 of all Islamic funds reporting to Bloomberg.
Finally, reference tables were developed to describe the distributional properties of each measure for specific age groups in men and women; here we present the mean, SD, minimum (0%) and maximum (100%) percentile scores, first (25%), second (50%), and third (75%) quartile scores, and 2nd, 9th, 91st, and 98th percentile scores.
After scoring in the 98th percentile on the American Association of Teachers of German National German Exam - a test taken each year by more than 26,000 German-language students across the United States - Reyes-Ramirez was selected as one of 39 students for a study trip funded by the German government.
 
 
 
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