Frequency Distribution

Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-011691

1. A distribution of the count of cases corresponding to the attributes of an observed variable.

2. A distribution describing the rate or frequency of occurrence of a value in a series or population arranged in ascending or descending order.

3. A complete summary of the frequencies of the values or categories of a variable; often displayed in a two column table: the left column lists the individual values or categories, the right column indicates the number of observations in each category.

4. A graph or plot that shows the number of observations that occur within a given interval; usually presented as a histogram showing the relative probabilities for each value. It conveys the range of values and the count (or proportion of the sample) that was observed across that range.

5. A complete summary of the frequencies of the values or categories of a variable, often displayed in a two-column table with the individual values or categories in the left column and the number of observations in each category in the right column.

6. A distribution describing the rate or frequency of occurrence of a value in a series or population arranged in ascending or descending order. [FDA 2002]

7. A complete summary of the frequencies of the values or categories of a variable; often displayed in a two column table: the left column lists the individual values or categories, the right column indicates the number of observations in each category. [CDC 2005]

Table 1. Record
Identifier	MLC-T-ENV-011691
Field	Environment
Subject	Policy and guidance
References	Program Evaluation Glossary; FDA 2002; CDC 2005; EPA Definitions of Terms Relevant to PRA and References for Further Reading at http://www.epa.gov/oswer/riskassessment/rags3adt/pdf/appendixe.pdf; CDC Glossary of Epidemiology Terms; Thesaurus of Terms Used in Microbial Risk Assessment

Record as JSON

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    "CDC Glossary of Epidemiology Terms",
    "Thesaurus of Terms Used in Microbial Risk Assessment"
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  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/frequency-distribution/"
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