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Noun

  • (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence

  • the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume

    “worldwide in distribution”

    “the distribution of nerve fibers”

    “in complementary distribution”

  • the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning

  • the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer

Usage examples

  • Other distributions use comparable alternatives like AppArmor.
  • The remaining genera are relatively rare and have restricted geographic distributions.
  • Other causes of velocity distributions may exist, though, for example due to turbulent motion.
  • Key is lower number of frames and better data distributions.
  • Another convention reserves the term "continuous probability distribution" for absolutely continuous distributions.
  • Probability distributions are determined by assigning an expectation to each random variable.
  • Other distributions of prize money followed.
  • The quantity "e" is a scale parameter for the family of lognormal distributions.
  • Its approach factorizes the joint probability distribution in the product of multivariate marginal distributions.
  • Extensions to elliptically-contoured distributions also exist.