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STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence
Synonyms:
distribution; statistical distribution
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("statistical distribution" is a kind of...):
arrangement; organisation; organization; system (an organized structure for arranging or classifying)
Domain category:
statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "statistical distribution"):
equidistribution (a flat distribution having equal frequencies of occurrence)
frequency distribution (a distribution of observed frequencies of occurrence of the values of a variable)
Gaussian distribution; normal distribution (a theoretical distribution with finite mean and variance)
Poisson distribution (a theoretical distribution that is a good approximation to the binomial distribution when the probability is small and the number of trials is large)
sample; sample distribution; sampling (items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population)
Bernoulli distribution; binomial distribution (a theoretical distribution of the number of successes in a finite set of independent trials with a constant probability of success)
