Editing Percentile (section)

==Applications==
When [[Internet Service Provider|ISPs]] bill [[Burstable billing|"burstable" internet bandwidth]], the 95th or 98th percentile usually cuts off the top 5% or 2% of bandwidth peaks in each month, and then bills at the nearest rate. In this way, infrequent peaks are ignored, and the customer is charged in a fairer way. The reason this statistic is so useful in measuring data throughput is that it gives a very accurate picture of the cost of the bandwidth. The 95th percentile says that 95% of the time, the usage is below this amount: so, the remaining 5% of the time, the usage is above that amount.

Physicians will often use infant and children's weight and height to assess their growth in comparison to national averages and percentiles which are found in [[growth chart]]s.

The 85th percentile speed of traffic on a road is often used as a guideline in setting [[speed limit]]s and assessing whether such a limit is too high or low.<ref>{{citation|title=Elementary Statistics|first1=Robert|last1=Johnson|first2=Patricia|last2=Kuby|edition=10th|publisher=Cengage Learning|year=2007|isbn=9781111802493|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vb8GAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA102|page=102|contribution=Applied Example 2.15, The 85th Percentile Speed Limit: Going With 85% of the Flow}}.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.lsp.org/pdf/troopc85thSpeed.pdf |title= Rational Speed Limits and the 85th Percentile Speed |website= lsp.org |publisher= Louisiana State Police |access-date= 28 October 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180923093555/http://www.lsp.org/pdf/troopc85thSpeed.pdf |archive-date= 23 September 2018 |url-status= dead }}</ref>

In finance, [[value at risk]] is a standard measure to assess (in a model-dependent way) the quantity under which the value of the portfolio is not expected to sink within a given period of time and given a confidence value.