expected frequency

British  

noun

1. statistics the number of occasions on which an event may be presumed to occur on average in a given number of trials

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Example Sentences

Danish officials reported a “higher than expected frequency” in the number of side effects, particularly blood clots, from the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.

From Washington Times

Prof James Screen, at the University of Exeter, UK, said: “It is important to keep in mind that although we might see an ice-free Arctic in all scenarios by 2050, the expected frequency of ice-free summers differs between scenarios. Under a higher emissions scenarios there may be ice-free summers every year, but in lower emissions scenarios they might be occasional.”

From The Guardian

Variants present at the expected frequency were classifed as functional, meaning that the protein had no effect on BRCA1 function.

From Nature

Through their experiments, the late psychologists Phil Holzemann and Clyde Rousey concluded in 1966 that voice confrontation arises not only from a difference in expected frequency, but also a striking revelation that occurs upon the realisation of all that your voice conveys.

From The Guardian

Because our antihydrogen is confined in a magnetic field, we rely on the known physics of the hydrogen atom to calculate the expected frequency and excitation rates of the transition in trapped antihydrogen.

From Nature