Following the Latin theme, how about "sedeciles"?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Li, Wenjun [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 4:16 PM
> To: '[email protected]'
> Subject: st: A simple but really hard question
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> I am trying to find the name of quintiles. When the
> population was divided
> into four groups according to its distribution, we call them
> quartiles; when
> divided into equally eight groups, we call them octiles; when
> divided into
> 16 groups, what is the name for these quantiles?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Wenjun Li
> Biostatistics Research Center
> Tufts-New England Medical Center
> 750 Washington Street, #63
> Boston, MA 02111
> Tel (617) 636 1603 Fax (617) 636 5560
> Email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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