Relative Frequency Function

A Relative Frequency Function is a frequency function that returns the ratio of an absolute frequency value to the multiset cardinality.

• Context:
  • range: Relative Frequency Value.
• Example(s):
  • a Relative Term Frequency Function.
  • an Empirical Probability Function.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • an Absolute Frequency Function.
• See: Multiplicity, Frequency Distribution.

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References

2013

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_frequency
  • The relative frequency (or empirical probability) of an event refers to the absolute frequency normalized by the total number of events:  :[math]\displaystyle{ f_i = \frac{n_i}{N} = \frac{n_i}{\sum_i n_i}. }[/math]

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