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Statistical Distributions

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Definition: The complete summaries of the frequencies of the values or categories of a measurement made on a group of items, a population, or other collection of data. The distribution tells either how many or what proportion of the group was found to have each value (or each range of values) out of all the possible values that the quantitative measure can have.  how many or what proportion of a group has a given value: read MeSH definition; GEN or unspecified: prefer specifics; IM; coord with subject of data /epidemiol or /statist (IM); DF: STATIST DISTRIBUTIONS   
Examples Binomial Distribution; Chi-Square Distribution; Normal Distribution; Poisson Distribution
Other names Statistical Distribution; Distributions, Statistical; Distribution, Statistical

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