distribution
43
4.9
- noun
- /ˌdɪstrɪˈbjuːʃən/
- Specialized
:
distribución
- A normality check was undertaken for discrete variables to ensure distributions were not seriously skewed.
- normal distribution
- probability distribution
- frequency distribution
That's that's what the distribution looks like.
- That's that's what the distribution looks like.
- I said that fat tail distributions were discovered by Benoit Mandelbrot.
- playoffs. That's part of the Pareto distribution. So
- You know, I'd really like to know what the tail of this distribution looks like.
- Again, you're on the outlier right hand end of the distribution for work.
- There's no guarantees that the out of sample distributions will conform to any of the training data.
- Keep in mind this distribution was randomly created.
Examples
-
First, the mixture of particles is likely to vary with study area in size distribution, number, and chemical composition.
Academic text (2008) -
Because of the skewed distribution of ages, the median was used for a chi-square analysis.
Academic text (1999) -
This is the size distribution of things in the lake.
-
Now what is the distribution of the sum?
-
Table 1 shows the frequency distribution for these two sample groups.
Academic text (2008) -
However, neither the magnitude nor the distribution of returns is likely to be uniform across states.
Academic text (2011) -
We have decrypted a number of German messages by analysing the frequency of letter distribution.
-
They seem to be drawn from kind of a bell curve distribution that we call a Gaussian.
-
The analysis used statistical methods to estimate the distribution of accidents where data was incomplete.
-
Researchers studied the size distribution of fish species in the lake to understand their population dynamics.
Synonyms
1
5.3
A way to show how often different values occur in data like test scores
1
4.7
A table or chart that shows how often each value appears in a set of data
How values or chances are spread across a set of data
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
5
4.2
A way a company gets products to customers, like stores or online shops
- Specialized
2
4.2
Money companies pay to deliver goods to customers, like shipping and advertising
- Specialized
1
4.7
A table or chart that shows how often each value appears in a set of data
- Specialized
1
6.7
A bell-shaped pattern that shows most values are near the average, like heights or test scores
- Specialized
1
5.3
A way to show how often different values occur in data like test scores
- Specialized
A model for one yes-or-no event with a fixed chance of success
- Specialized
The chance of a number of successes in a fixed number of tries each with the same chance
- Specialized
A physics law that shows how energy spreads among gas particles, with high energies less likely than low ones
- Specialized
A situation where two related sounds appear in different places and never together
- Formal
A written deal that lets one company sell another company's products to stores
- Specialized
A rule that describes how energy spreads among molecules in a group
- Specialized
A number calculated from data that does not need the data's distribution to be known
- Specialized
A physics rule that shows how particles in a gas have different energies at the same temperature
- Specialized
A model showing how often rare events happen in a fixed time or area
- Specialized
A set of values chosen at random from a larger group to study that group
How Variable
- Specialized
- Specialized
43
4.9
- Specialized
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
distribution = distribute (transparent) = distribute + ion
The statistical sense is the noun form of 'distribute' describing how values are spread; this is a predictable nominalization.
Etymology
Distribution comes from the parts dis- 'apart' and tribuere 'to give', the same root as contribute, and a helpful image is numbers or items being 'given out' into different boxes on a chart. So, in statistics a distribution shows how values are spread or arranged across a range.