Popular Answers. As rightly stated by Igor an Eric above, quantiles (sometimes labelled n-tiles) is a generic term meaning the splitting of a statistical distribution in groups of equal size, be it quintiles, quartiles, percentiles or whatever-tiles...
The Boston Massacre was not really a massacre. It was a riot turned out of control. Less than 10 British soldiers who were trying to uphold the law were surrounded by a mob of â¦ angry colonists who were taunting them and throwing things at them. They were surrounded and a shot was fired.
As the American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770 A street fight that occurred, between a patriot mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. 5 colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry.