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What is a percentile?

What is a percentile? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (statistics) Any of the ninety-nine points that divide an ordered distribution into one hundred parts, each containing one per cent of the population.
  2. (statistics) Any one of the hundred groups so divided.
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Speed limits on high-speed roads, and the actual extreme percentile speeds, have generally decreased.
The plant is consistently running above the 90 th percentile with regards to total line efficiencies.
This is the antilog in terms of the original unit of measurement that defines the 50th percentile.
The STAT scores available for each student range from 100 to 200 for each part and for the total, together with a percentile rank for each.
Therefore, the results use percentile reporting rates instead of standard deviations.
The median of the modest income population corresponds to the 25th percentile of the population income.

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