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noun(dis-tri-bu-tion)the act or process of distributing
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noun(dis-tri-bu-tion)the act or process of apportioning by a court the personal property of an intestate
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noun(dis-tri-bu-tion)the position, arrangement, or frequency of occurrence (as of the members of a group) over an area or throughout a space or unit of time
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noun(dis-tri-bu-tion)cumulative distribution function
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noun(dis-tri-bu-tion)a probability function each of whose values gives the probability that an outcome with constant probability of occurrence in a statistical experiment will occur a given number of times in a succession of repetitions of the experiment
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noun(dis-tri-bu-tion)a probability density function that gives the distribution of the sum of the squares of a number of independent random variables each with a normal distribution with zero mean and unit variance, that has the property that the sum of two or more random variables with such a distribution also has one, and that is widely used in testing statistical hypotheses especially about the theoretical and observed values of a quantity and about population variances and standard deviations
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noun(dis-tri-bu-tion)a function that gives the probability that a random variable is less than or equal to the independent variable of the function
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noun(dis-tri-bu-tion)a probability density function that is used especially in analysis of variance and is a function of the ratio of two independent random variables each of which has a chi-square distribution and is divided by its number of degrees of freedom
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noun(dis-tri-bu-tion)an arrangement of statistical data that exhibits the frequency of the occurrence of the values of a variable
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noun(dis-tri-bu-tion)normal distribution
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noun(dis-tri-bu-tion)a probability function f(x) that gives the probability of obtaining exactly x elements of one kind and n - x elements of another if n elements are chosen at random without replacement from a finite population containing N elements of which M are of the first kind and N - M are of the second kind and that has the form ...
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noun(dis-tri-bu-tion)a probability density function that approximates the distribution of many random variables (such as the proportion of outcomes of a particular kind in a large number of independent repetitions of an experiment in which the probabilities remain constant from trial to trial) and that has the form ... where μ is the mean and σ is the standard deviation