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• n  (statistics) any of the 99 numbered points that divide an ordered set of scores into 100 parts each of which contains one-hundredth of the total

• She and another teacher started out with second-graders who were scoring in the bottom percentile on standardized tests.
• Obesity is defined as the 95th percentile.
• Besides, since when was the 40th percentile average? That means 60 percent of kids who take this test do better than he did.

• centile

News & Articles

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• Rare Government Study Concludes Curriculum Doubles Student Algebra Gains
  WASHINGTON, June 20, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Recently completed research funded by the U.S. Department of Education and independently conducted by the RAND Corporation revealed a statistically significant impact of eight percentile points for students who used Carnegie Learning's Cognitive Tutor® Algebra I. (View the multimedia news release here)."We are thrilled by the outcome," said ...
  June 20, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Shaquille O'Neal in USA Today
  Whenever I get the ball in my little high percentile ground, I'm always going to score six out of 10 times,O'Neal said. "Lifetime. Sixty percent. That's what my main man Harvey Pollack told me."
• Justin Williams in ESPN
  One thing's for sure: (penalty killing) has to get better,Hurricanes right wing Justin Williams said. "Mid-70 percentile is not going to be good enough. We need to know when we take a penalty, we're not going to be in trouble. We need to...
• Donovan in Florida Times-Union
  Any time you shoot in the 30 percentile from the free-throw line, it's going to cause you a problem,Donovan said.