percentile

percentil

Valor por debajo del cual queda un porcentaje determinado de un conjunto de resultados ordenados.

En inglés sencillo: A value below which a particular percentage of an ordered set of results falls.

• His score reached the ninetieth percentile.
• The fiftieth percentile is the median.
• What value marks the tenth percentile?

Cómo se usa: at the nth percentile (Her height is at the ninetieth percentile.)

Expresiones frecuentes: percentile rank, ninetieth percentile, percentile value

percentil

Uno de cien grupos iguales obtenidos al ordenar personas o resultados de menor a mayor.

En inglés sencillo: One of a hundred equal groups formed by arranging people or results from lowest to highest.

• She is in the top percentile.
• People in this income percentile earn much less.
• The bottom percentile includes the lowest scores.

Cómo se usa: in the nth percentile (The students in the top percentile received prizes.)

Expresiones frecuentes: top percentile, bottom percentile, income percentile