statistical_distribution (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *statistical distribution*:
NOUN	cognition	statistical distribution, distribution	(statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence

English > *statistical distribution*: 1 sense > noun 1, cognition
Meaning	(statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence.
Synonym	distribution
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
Narrower	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
	binomial distribution, Bernoulli distribution	A theoretical distribution of the number of successes in a finite set of independent trials with a constant probability of success
	equidistribution	A flat distribution having equal frequencies of occurrence
	frequency distribution	A distribution of observed frequencies of occurrence of the values of a variable
	normal distribution, Gaussian distribution	A theoretical distribution with finite mean and variance
	sample distribution, sample, sampling	items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population
Broader	arrangement, organization, organisation, system	An organized structure for arranging or classifying

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