"statistical distribution" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

referred to in: 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

is a type of: arrangement, organisation, organization, system - an organized structure for arranging or classifying
subtypes:
- 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
same as: distribution