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Decile

Deciles split a data set into 10 equal parts so that each part represents 10% of the observations. The first decile (D1) contains the lowest 10% of values, the second decile (D2) contains the next lowest 10%, and so on up to the ninth decile (D9) which contains the highest 10% of values. A formula is provided to calculate the value of each decile by taking the rank of the decile multiplied by the number of data points plus one, divided by ten. This formula is demonstrated by calculating the second and seventh deciles from a sample data set of 20 observations.

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Decile

Deciles split a data set into 10 equal parts so that each part represents 10% of the observations. The first decile (D1) contains the lowest 10% of values, the second decile (D2) contains the next lowest 10%, and so on up to the ninth decile (D9) which contains the highest 10% of values. A formula is provided to calculate the value of each decile by taking the rank of the decile multiplied by the number of data points plus one, divided by ten. This formula is demonstrated by calculating the second and seventh deciles from a sample data set of 20 observations.

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What is Decile?

• In descriptive statistics, the term "decile"


refers to the nine values that split the
population data into ten equal fragments such
that each fragment is representative of 1/10th
of the population.
• In other words, each successive decile
corresponds to an increase of 10% points such
that the 1st decile or D1 has 10% of the
observations below it, then 2nd decile or D2
has 20% of the observations below it, and so
on so forth.
Decile Formula
There are several formulae in vogue to calculate decile,
and this method is one of the simplest one where each
decile is calculated by adding one to the number of data
in the population, then divide the sum by ten and then
finally multiply the result by the rank of the decile, i.e.,
1 for D1, 2 for D2… 9 for D9.

Di = i * (n + 1) / 10 th data

where n = Number of data in the population or sample

i is the ith decile can be represented as,

1st decile, D1 = 1 * (n + 1) / 10 th data


FOR EXAMPLE:
We will calculate second and seventh decile from following array of data.

20, 28, 29, 30, 36, 37, 39, 42, 53, 54,

55, 58, 61, 67, 68, 70, 74, 81, 82, 93

Given: n=20

So let’s calculate the second decile:

D2 =value of 2(n+1) /10th item

=2(20+1)/10th item

=4.2th item below

= the value of the 4th is 30 and that of the 5th item is 36. Thus the second decile is a
value 0.2th of the way between 30 and 36.The second decile will be 30+6(0.6) =31.2

Therefore ; D2= 31.2


20, 28, 29, 30, 36, 37, 39, 42, 53, 54,
55, 58, 61, 67, 68, 70, 74, 81, 82, 93
D7= value of 7(n+1)/ 10th item
= 7(20+1)/ 10th item
= 14.7th item from below
= The value of the 14th item is 67 and that of the 15th
item is 68. Thus the 7th decile is 0.7th of the way
between 67 and 68, which will be as 67 + 1 (0.7) = 67.7

Therefore D7 = 67.7

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