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.
The Real Boston Massacre The Boston Massacre refers to the murder of five colonists by British soldiers on March 5, 1770. The Sons of Liberty, a group of colonists who resisted the Crown, dubbed the event a Massacre in order to incite anger towards the Crown. British officials, however, referred to the event as the Boston Riot. These names reveal more than just differing attitudes towards the same event.