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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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The upper values represent the 95th percentile values for the entire sample.
Speed limits on high-speed roads, and the actual extreme percentile speeds, have generally decreased.
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.
For official domestic proofs displayed in this block a percentile rank is also provided.
Then we divide the income of the household at the ninetieth percentile by the income of the household at the tenth percentile.
Therefore, the results use percentile reporting rates instead of standard deviations.

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