Yes, I agree! I vote for 16 quantiles. Save sedeciles for Trivial
Pursuit...
Nick Cox wrote:
>
> Li, Wenjun
> >
> > Thanks, everyone. A friend has suggested to use "double-octiles" for
> > quantiles based on division into 16 groups of equal
> > frequency. How do you
> > think about this? "Sedeciles", as suggested by Nick Cox
> > [and Nick Winter], is a possible name too.
>
> "Double-octiles" is a mix of English out of French out of
> Latin and straight Latin. These linguistic mongrels
> are a bad idea. (Like "television"...)
>
> I still vote against a new term, as you are asking.
>
> Nick
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