percentiles in English

noun
1
each of the 100 equal groups into which a population can be divided according to the distribution of values of a particular variable.
The terms tercile, quartile, quintile and decile should refer to the percentiles which divide the distribution into 3, 4, 5, or 10 equal parts, respectively.
noun
    centile

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1. This Applet computes probabilities and percentiles for normal random variables: $$X \sim N(\mu, \sigma)$$ Directions

2. Our longitudinally obtained measurements provide up-to-date standard values of age- and height-related head circumference percentiles.

3. This Applet computes probabilities and percentiles for gamma random variables: $$X \sim Gamma(\alpha, \beta)$$ When using rate parameterization, replace $\beta$ with

4. Full Anthropometry tables usually provide a large number of measures, with data reported as the mean and standard deviation, as well as the 5th and 95th percentiles for both males and females