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WEIGHTING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance
Synonyms:
weight; weighting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("weighting" is a kind of...):
coefficient (a constant number that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic)
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)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb weight
