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percentiles

• in statistics, percentiles divide a data set into 100 equal parts.
• each percentile is the value at or below which a percentage of the data falls,
e.g. from the 10th decile under which 10% of the data falls to
the 90th decile under which 90% of the data falls.

EXAMPLES:
percentiles


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