Quantitative Concept
statistical distribution
sta·tis·ti·cal dis·tri·bu·tion
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Mathematical Concepts
Definitions related to statistical distributions:
  • A group of ordered values; the frequencies or relative frequencies of all possible values of a characteristic.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
  • A representation (usually a graph or plot) showing the likelihood that particular event will occur over a set of values. The representation may be defined by a mathematical function, the probability density function.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • 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.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
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