decile
pronunciation
How to pronounce decile in British English:
UK [ˈdesaɪl]
How to pronounce decile in American English:
US [ˈdɪsˌaɪl, -əl]
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- Noun:
- (statistics) any of nine points that divided a distribution of ranked scores into equal intervals where each interval contains one-tenth of the scores
Word Origin
- decile (adj.)
- 1670s in astrology; 1882 in statistics; from French décile or Medieval Latin *decilis, from Latin decem "ten" (see ten) on the model of quintilis, sextilis.
Example
- 1. In addition to the headquarters area of 3000 square meters of business , but also with hangzhou tianshui , mark , political court tonglu , linan decile museum .
- 2. According to maarten goos and alan manning of the london school of economics , the number of jobs in the top wage decile grew by almost 80 % between 1979 and 1999 .
- 3. The typical household income posited by one commentator for the coping class is 88000 a year , well into the top decile of uk earnings .
- 4. The next decile down saw roughly 25 % growth , and the number of jobs in the lowest two deciles also increased .