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decile

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decile [′des‚īl]
(statistics)
Any of the points which divide the total number of items in a frequency distribution into 10 equal parts.


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In 1999, for example, Baldwin was in decile 2 statewide and decile 5 in comparison with schools of similar demographics.
Decile management involves dividing risks into rank-ordered buckets where each bucket represents 10% of risks and then based on the positional ranking and profitability of each decile (bucket), business actions can be assigned to each decile.
Consequently, we assume that the bottom decile represents the most vulnerable (Braithwaite et al.
 
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