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名詞

quintile (plural quintiles)

1. (statistics) Any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into five equally numerous subsets.
2. (by extension) A subset thus obtained.
   • 2021 August 19, Tami Luhby, “Far fewer Americans owed federal income tax in 2020 because of the pandemic”, in CNN‎, archived from the original on 8 November 2022:

     Effectively no household making less than $28,000 will pay federal income tax – usually about 15% of the bottom income quintile has some tax liability.

   • 2024 May 19, Bryan Mena, “Wealthy Americans are starting to spend more carefully”, in CNN Business‎, archived from the original on 15 July 2024:

     “It’s well known that the lowest income consumer is really struggling with inflation, but from a purely economic standpoint, it is the higher quintiles of earners that do the most spending,” Nanette Abuhoff Jacobson, global investment strategist at Hartford Funds, told CNN.

3. (astrology) An aspect of planets that are distant from each other by one fifth of a zodiac (72°)

同意語

• fifth

上位語

• quantile

等位語

• (statistics):
• median (2-quantile), tercile/tertile (3), quartile (4), quintile (5), sextile (6), septile (7), octile (8), decile (10), hexadecile (16), ventile/vigintile (20), centile/percentile (100), millile (1000)

派生語

アナグラム

• quitline

参照

• "quintile", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)