frequency distribution
A structured representation that summarizes how often values or categories occur…A structured representation that summarizes how often values or categories occur within a dataset by organizing quantitative data into class intervals and categorizing qualitative data into distinct groups, thus revealing patterns, trends, and distributions, often showed in a list, table, or graph that displays the frequency of various outcomes in a sample.
Meaning
1 sensesA structured representation that summarizes how often values or categories occur within a dataset by organizing quantitative data into class intervals and categorizing qualitative data into distinct groups, thus revealing patterns, trends, and distributions, often showed in a list, table, or graph that displays the frequency of various outcomes in a sample.
- a distribution of observed frequencies of occurrence of the values of a variable
Forms
plural: frequency distributions| Singular | frequency distribution |
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