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- noun Plural form of
octile .
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When we desire to compare any two large statistical groups, we may compare median with median, quartiles with quartiles, and octiles with octiles; or we may proceed on the method to be described in the next paragraph but one.
Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development Francis Galton 1866
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The most convenient fractional parts are the middle (giving the median), the outside quarters (giving the upper and lower quartiles), and similarly the upper and lower octiles or deciles.
Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development Francis Galton 1866
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