Part of a book: Грънчарова, Гена и др.. Methods and tools in public health : A handbook for teachers, researches and health professionals / Ed. Lijana Zaletel-Kragelj and Jadranka Bozikov . - Lage : Hans Jacobs , 2010
Description: Quantiles are special measures of location that could be described as the points that divide the ordered series of data (from the lowest to the highest value)into subgroups of equal size regarding the number of units in a subgroup. In other words, quantiles are the data values marking the boundaries between consecutive subgroups ordered series of data (an array).