percentile

centile, percentile

Valeur au-dessous de laquelle se situe un pourcentage donné d’un ensemble de résultats classés.

En anglais simple : 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?

Comment l'utiliser : at the nth percentile (Her height is at the ninetieth percentile.)

Expressions courantes : percentile rank, ninetieth percentile, percentile value

centile, percentile

Un des cent groupes égaux obtenus en classant des personnes ou des résultats du plus faible au plus élevé.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : in the nth percentile (The students in the top percentile received prizes.)

Expressions courantes : top percentile, bottom percentile, income percentile