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Statistical Distributions

"Statistical Distributions" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Statistical Distributions" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Statistical Distributions" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
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