STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does statistical distribution mean? 

• STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION (noun)
  The noun STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION has 1 sense:

1. (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence

  Familiarity information: STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION (noun)

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Meaning:

(statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

distribution; statistical distribution

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)

 Context examples 

A discrete, statistical distribution which is described by the probability density function: p(k) = p (1-p)^(k-1).

(Geometric Distribution, NCI Thesaurus)

A discrete statistical distribution whose variable has two possible values, success and failure, and which describes the number of trials necessary to reach a predefined number of successful trials.

(Negative Binomial Distribution, NCI Thesaurus)

A statistical distribution whose elements may only assume discreet values.

(Discrete Distribution, NCI Thesaurus)

A statistical distribution described by a function whose range may assume any value, typically any value in the set of real numbers.

(Continuous Distribution, NCI Thesaurus)