Percentile (Centile)

Is a measure of relative standing

It is a descriptive measure of the
relationship of a measurement to the
rest of the data
It is also called PERCENTAGE (%)
is a measure used in statistics
indicating the value below which a
given percentage of observations in a
group of observations fall

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th

1 quartile 25
percentile
nd
th
2 quartile 50
percentile
rd

3 quartile 75
percentile

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4 quartile 100

th

percentile
First, a probability value corresponds to
an area under the normal curve
Second, in the Table of Areas Under the
Normal Curve, the numbers in the extreme
left and across the top are z-scores, which
are the distances along the horizontal

scale. The numbers in the body of the

table are areas or probabilities

Third, the z-scores to the left of the mean

are negative values