absolute frequency

1. 1.

   the number of observations in a given statistical category

   Synonymsfrequency

   Broadercardinal number

Questions about absolute frequency

What does absolute frequency mean?

absolute frequency means "the number of observations in a given statistical category".

What is another word for absolute frequency?

Close synonyms include frequency. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is absolute frequency a common word?

absolute frequency is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.