3.2 Result: 3.3 From this textbook . Along with the center and the variability, another useful numerical measure is the ranking of a number. A percentile is a measure of ranking. It represents a location measurement of a data value to the rest of the values. Many standardized tests give the results as a percentile. Doctors also use percentiles to track a child’s growth. The kth percentile is the data value that has k% of the data at or below that value. Percentile : one of the points into which a large range of numbers, results, etc. is divided to make 100 groups of the same size (From Cambridge dictionary) kth percentile : Is a measure in statistics indicating the value below which a given percentage ( ) of data points fall in an ordered dataset. It splits data into 100 equal parts, showing relative standing: if a score is in the 90th percentile, 90% of scores are lower. EXP3.3.3 five-number summary for an even number of data ...