frequency distribution

American  

noun

Statistics.

1. the correspondence of a set of frequencies with the set of categories, intervals, or values into which a population is classified.

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frequency distribution British  

noun

1. statistics the function of the distribution of a sample corresponding to the probability density function of the underlying population and tending to it as the sample size increases, the set of relative frequencies of sample points falling within given intervals of the range of the random variable

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frequency distribution Scientific  

1. A range of conditions, often represented in graph form, in which each item is paired with the number of observed events or measurements meeting those conditions. For example, a list of price ranges paired with the number of cars available in each price range is a frequency distribution. Frequency distributions are commonly used in statistical analysis.

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Etymology

Origin of frequency distribution

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

Despite the system's complexity, the team found that snowflake accelerations follow an exponential frequency distribution with an exponent of three halves.

From Science Daily • Dec. 19, 2023

In analyzing their data, they also discovered that fluctuations in the terminal velocity frequency distribution followed the same pattern.

From Science Daily • Dec. 19, 2023

Note—The term marginal distributions gets its name from the fact that the distributions are found in the margins of frequency distribution tables.

From Textbooks • Mar. 27, 2020

The line graphs below Tu chromosomes display the frequency distribution of AGK genes.

From Nature • May 8, 2018

If the parallax stars are arranged according to their apparent proper motion, or even according to their absolute proper motion, a similar bipartition is revealed in their frequency distribution.

From Lectures on Stellar Statistics by Charlier, Carl Vilhelm Ludvig