WEIGHTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does weighting mean? 

• WEIGHTING (noun)
  The noun WEIGHTING has 1 sense:

1. (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance

  Familiarity information: WEIGHTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEIGHTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

weight; weighting

Hypernyms ("weighting" is a kind of...):

coefficient (a constant number that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic)

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 method of predicting mortality by weighting comorbid conditions calculated by reviewing an individual's chart.

(Charlson Comorbidity Index Chart Review Version, NCI Thesaurus)

It is the largest internal organ of the body, weighting up to 2 kg.

(Liver, NCI Thesaurus)

A shape distortion in the z-axis resulting from the weighting function used in the helical interpolation algorithm.

(Helical Interpolation Artifact, NCI Thesaurus)