RELATIVE FREQUENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does relative frequency mean? 

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

1. the ratio of the number of observations in a statistical category to the total number of observations

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RELATIVE FREQUENCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The ratio of the number of observations in a statistical category to the total number of observations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

frequency; relative frequency

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

ratio (the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "relative frequency"):

incidence; relative incidence (the relative frequency of occurrence of something)

 Context examples 

The relative frequency of occurrence of something.

(Incidence, NCI Thesaurus)