percentile
/pɝˈsɛnˌtaɪɫ/
the value below which a given percentage of observations fall
percentile in a sentence
“Scoring in the 95th percentile means outperforming 95% of test-takers.”
Origin of percentile
Latin per centum by the hundred + -ile
Related Words
outlier
an observation that lies far from other values
normal distribution
a symmetric bell-shaped probability distribution
binomial
relating to experiments with two possible outcomes
Poisson distribution
a distribution modeling rare events over fixed intervals
exponential
a distribution modeling time between events in a Poisson process
uniform
a distribution where all outcomes are equally likely