density function

British  

noun

1. statistics short for probability density function

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Example Sentences

Using a Matlab script, he calculated the probability density function and concluded that this theoretical “really good putter” is hitting the flagstick straight on only 27.6 percent of the time.

From Golf Digest

The maximum a posteriori value and minimal 68.3% credible interval from this posterior density function is .

From Nature

The maximum a posteriori value and minimal 68.3% credible interval from this posterior density function is .

From Nature

Then, the mean of the methylation level for all contained CpG sites was calculated for each region, and for each epigenome density values were calculated for these mean methylation values between 0% and 100%, with density values estimated over n = 1,000 points with a gaussian kernel, with the default ‘nrd0’ bandwidth from the R stats package density function.

From Nature

Probability density functions were estimated across each vector of relative positions using the density function in the stats R package with a Gaussian kernel and bandwidth adjusted according to Silverman’s rule of thumb41.

From Nature