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frequency distribution comparison table

Subject	is a kind of	has definition
statistical distribution	statistical concept	The range of variation of some quantity in a population, obtained by sampling many members of the population. For example, the statistical distribution of the height of American males could be obtained by sampling 10,000 randomly chosen males and counting the number of them within each range of heights. In cosmology, the distance between pairs of galaxies, averaged over a large number of galaxies, would constitute a statistical distribution.
frequency distribution	statistical distribution	A statistical arrangement of numerical data according to size or magnitude (see also distribution function).

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