Look up: quartile

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   Quartile
   A ranked data set is divided into four equal parts. Each separating value is called a quartile (the first, the second etc.). The second quartile is the median.
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   Quartile
   The division of a spread of values divided into four. A statistical division generally used in financial services to denote performance of, say, a particular type of fund. Comparisons of similar funds are shown in a league table, which is divided into four quarters or quartiles.
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   Quartile
   Relative ranking (in one of four quarters) of a particular portfolio (or a manager) in a league table of returns. So for example, a quartile ranking of 2 indicates that the portfolio's/manager's return was ranked in the second highest quarter of the range of results of the stated league table. Similarly, a quartile ranking of 4 indicates that the portfolio's/manager's return was ranked in the lowest 25% of the range of results. Pension schemes sometimes set an investment objective of upper quartile, which is a ranking of 1, making the portfolio's/manager's return in the top 25%.
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   quartile
   [n] - (statistics) any of three points that divide an ordered distribution into four parts each containing one quarter of the scores
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   Quartile
   When investment funds are ranked on the basis of performance, their positioning is summarised on the basis of which quartile the results fall into, with the first quartile being the best.
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   Quartile
   The investment industry ranks the performance of collective funds on the total returns (income +... <a target=_blank href='http://www.finance-glossary.com/terms/quartile.htm?id=1203&ginPtrCode=00000&PopupMode=false' title='Read full definition of quartile'>more</a>
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   quartile
   quartiles are closely related to the median which divides a frequency distribution into two parts each having equal numbers of observations.The first and third quartiles divide each of these halves into two further equal parts,the median being the second quartile Category: Statistics
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   Quartile
   Definition (keystage 2) Statistics which divide the observations in a numeric sample into 4 intervals, each containing 25% of the data. The lower, middle, and upper quartiles are computed by ordering the data from smallest to largest and then finding the values below which fall 25%, 50%, and 75% of the data. <br /> The middle quartile is usua ...
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   Quartile
   Definition (keystage 3) The point one quarter or three quarters of the way through a set of data. See also median, which is halfway through the data.
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    Quartile
    Quar'tile noun [ French quartile aspect , from Latin quartus the fourth. See Quart .] (Astrol.) Same as Quadrate .
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    quartile
    <astronomy> Same as Quadrate. ... Origin: F.quartile aspect, fr. L. Quartus the fourth. See Quart. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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    quartile
    noun (statistics) any of three points that divide an ordered distribution into four parts each containing one quarter of the scores
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    Quartile
    In descriptive statistics, a `quartile` is any of the three values which divide the sorted data set into four equal parts, so that each part represents 1/4th of the sampled population. Thus: * `first quartile` (designated Q1) = `lower quartile` = cuts off lowest 25% of data = `25th percentile` * `second quartile` (designated Q2) = `median` = cuts data set in half = `50th percentile` * `third quartile` (designated Q3) = `upper quartile` = cuts of...
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    quartile
    (kwor´tīl) any of the three values that divide the range of a probability distribution into four parts of equal probability; the first, second, and third quartiles are the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles.
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    Quartile
    • (n.) Same as Quadrate.
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    quartile
    (from the article `statistics`) ...below the th percentile, and roughly 100 percent of the data values are above the th percentile. Percentiles are reported, for example, on most ...
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    Quartile
    One of four segments of a distribution that has been divided into quarters. For example, the second-from-the-bottom quartile of an income distribution is those with incomes above the bottom 25% of the population and below the top 50%.
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    quartile
    a statistical unit equal to 25 percentiles, or 1/4 of a ranked sample.
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    quartile
    a term often used in fund performance. For example, funds are referred to as being in the top or bottom quartile, meaning that this is where they have been ranked in relation to the other funds in their category.…
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    quartile
    The first quartile of a sequence of numbers is the number such that one quarter of the numbers in the sequence are less than this number.
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