FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does frequency distribution mean? 

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

1. a distribution of observed frequencies of occurrence of the values of a variable

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A distribution of observed frequencies of occurrence of the values of a variable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("frequency distribution" is a kind of...):

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

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)

 Context examples 

A plot of a cumulative dose-volume frequency distribution that graphically summarizes the simulated radiation distribution within a volume of interest of a patient which would result from a proposed radiation treatment plan.

(Dose Volume Histogram, NCI Thesaurus)

A bar chart representing a frequency distribution where the heights of the bars represent observed frequencies.

(Histogram, NCI Thesaurus)