quartile

IPA: kwˈɔrtɪɫ

(statistics) Any of the three points that divide an ordered distribution into four parts, each containing a quarter of the population.
(statistics) Any one of the four groups so divided.

Examples of "quartile" in Sentences

Birinyi called that the first phase, or "quartile," of the bull market.
He had found, predictably, that kids from the top economic quartile were most likely to go to college.
But he also found a lot of kids in the lowest economic quartile who had strong test scores, yet never went on to college.
We are not top of the heap by any stretch of the imagination but we are aggressive, we are top quartile, which is where we are in funding.
It was a bet on the bottom 3/4th or so of American society, in particular on the second quartile from the bottom, because that’s where the incremental homeowners needed to push the home ownership from 64% to 69% would primarily come from.