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percentile [pər′sen‚tīl]
(statistics)
A value in the range of a set of data which separates the range into two groups so that a given percentage of the measures lies below this value.


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For this study, children were classified as overweight if their BMI was between the 85th and 95th percentiles, and defined as obese if their BMI was greater than the 95th percentile for weight based on age and height.
Obese children are those with a BMI above the 95th percentile.
s not possible for very many people to be in the 95th percentile, nor is it a measure of failure to be below it.
 
 
 
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