Editing Decile (section)

{{Short description|Quantile dividing data into 10 equal parts}}
In [[descriptive statistics]], a '''decile''' is any of the nine values that divide the sorted data into ten equal parts, so that each part represents 1/10 of the sample or population.<ref>{{citation|title=Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis: For the Behavioral Sciences|first=Robert S.|last=Lockhart|publisher=Macmillan|year=1998|isbn=9780716729747|page=78|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=93pxNPtt0coC&pg=PA78}}.</ref> A decile is one possible form of a [[quantile]]; others include the [[quartile]] and [[percentile]].<ref>{{citation|title=Handbook of Parametric and Nonparametric Statistical Procedures|first=David J.|last=Sheskin|edition=3rd|publisher=CRC Press|year=2003|isbn=9781420036268|page=10|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bmwhcJqq01cC&pg=PA10}}.</ref> A decile rank arranges the data in order from lowest to highest and is done on a scale of one to ten where each successive number corresponds to an increase of 10 percentage points.