Decile vs. Octile

Decilenoun

(statistics) Any of the values in a series that divides the distribution of individuals in that series into ten groups of equal frequency.

Decilenoun

Any one of the ten subsets or groups so divided.

Decilenoun

(astrology) An aspect or position of two planets when they are distant from each other a tenth part of the zodiac.

Decilenoun

(statistics) any of nine points that divided a distribution of ranked scores into equal intervals where each interval contains one-tenth of the scores

Decile

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. A decile is one possible form of a quantile; others include the quartile and percentile.

Octilenoun

(statistics) Any of the quantiles that divide an ordered sample population into eight equally numerous subsets.

Octilenoun

A subset thus obtained.

Octilenoun

(astronomy) An octant.

Octilenoun

Same as Octant, 2.