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.

Synonyms: Statistical Distribution, Statistical Distributions, Distribution, Statistical, Distributions, Statistical

Instance information

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98 ,98; use explode 1990-97 ,general or unspecified; prefer specifics; coordinate with subject of data /epidemiol or /statist

identifier

D016008