frequency distribution

1. 1.

   a distribution of observed frequencies of occurrence of the values of a variable

   Broaderdistribution

   statistics

Questions about frequency distribution

What does frequency distribution mean?

frequency distribution means "a distribution of observed frequencies of occurrence of the values of a variable".

Is frequency distribution a common word?

frequency distribution 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.