Quantitative Concept
sex distribution
sex dis·tri·bu·tion
Subclass of:
Demography
Definitions related to sex distribution:
  • A description of the distribution of a trait between sexes in a population; number of males and females in a given population.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • The number of males and females in a given population. The distribution may refer to how many men or women or what proportion of either in the group. The population is usually patients with a specific disease but the concept is not restricted to humans and is not restricted to medicine.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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