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 Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts.