Empirical Frequency
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An Empirical Frequency is a Frequency that is based on the Count of Events that meet a certain criteria.
- Context:
- It can be an Experimental Frequency (for random experiment outcomes).
- Example(s):
- “It rained five days this summer.”
- Counter-Example(s):
- an Expected Frequency, such as: “It will rain five days this summary”.
- an Analytic Frequency, such as for a Gaussian distribution.
- See: Frequency Value, Frequency Function.
References
2002
- http://www.teacherlink.org/content/math/interactive/probability/glossary/glossary.html
- Empirical Frequency: The number of times an outcome has been observed to occur during repeated trials of an experiment; also called Experimental Frequency.
2000
- Math.com. (2000). “Glossary, http://www.math.com/school/glossary/defs/frequency.html
- frequency: The number of times a particular item appears in a data set.