relative frequency
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- noun
- /ˈrɛlətɪv ˈfrikwənsi/
- Specialized
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frecuencia relativa
- Students then rank-ordered those three selections in terms of their relative frequency of occurrence.
- relative frequency of occurrence
And one thing that it's worth noting is that conditioning never changes the relative frequencies or relative likelihoods of the different outcomes.
- And one thing that it's worth noting is that conditioning never changes the relative frequencies or relative likelihoods of the different outcomes.
Examples
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Peoples indigenous to different parts of the world turn out to differ genetically in their relative frequencies of loops, whorls, and arches.
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Figure 8 displays the development of the relative frequency of economies with a debt ceiling over time.
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We compared the relative frequency of attention failures between the nap and control groups.
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The relative frequency of each category of case in the AHS client population has also changed.
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The data give information about the relative frequency of occurrence of contributing factors associated with outbreaks or cases.
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The relative frequency of reflex activation is also summarized in Table 2.
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The relative frequency and spatial distribution of positive and negative mycorrhizal feedbacks within plant communities remain to be investigated.
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To this end, we computed the relative frequency of present connections (Fig 5, Table 3).
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Category 3 hurricanes were the only storms to have a lower relative frequency of occurrence than their associated HTS (see Figure 2).
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The data give information about the relative frequency of occurrence of contributing factors associated with outbreaks or cases.
Synonyms
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A part of a whole often shown as a fraction or ratio
How often something happens compared with something else
How Frequent
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the proportion or rate of occurrences relative to the whole' is directly derivable from combining 'relative' (not absolute; in relation to something) with 'frequency' (rate of occurrence). This adjective+noun composition is transparent and has clear equivalents in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should understand the MWE.
Etymology
The term relative frequency comes from the idea of giving each count a slice of the whole, like pieces of a pie. The word relative means 'compared to others' and frequency means 'how often', so relative frequency shows each item's part of the total and tells 'how common' it is.