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equidistribution
a flat distribution having equal frequencies of occurrence
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frequency distribution
a distribution of observed frequencies of occurrence of the values of a variable
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Gaussian distribution, normal distribution
a theoretical distribution with finite mean and variance
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Poisson distribution
a theoretical distribution that is a good approximation to the binomial distribution when the probability is small and the number of trials is large
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sample, sample distribution, sampling
items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population
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Bernoulli distribution, binomial distribution
a theoretical distribution of the number of successes in a finite set of independent trials with a constant probability of success
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acceptance sampling
a statistical procedure for accepting or rejecting a batch of merchandise or documents; involves determining the maximum number of defects discovered in a sample before the entire batch is rejected
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random sample
a sample in which every element in the population has an equal chance of being selected
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proportional sample, representative sample, stratified sample
the population is divided into strata and a random sample is taken from each stratum
