Subscriber login
Password
Forgot your password?
Library card login
Login with Shibboleth® »
Login with Athens »
Close menu
Oxford Dictionaries Online
The world's most trusted dictionaries
About
Subscriber services
What's new
Contact us
Help
Subscribe now
Already a subscriber or in a subscribing organization?
Login
Dictionary
Other language resources
US English
World English
Dictionary
Better writing
World of words
Puzzles and games
For children and schools
For learners of English
Email
Cite
probability distribution
(prob|abil¦ity dis¦tri|bu¦tion)
noun
Statistics
a function of a discrete variable whose integral over any interval is the probability that the variate specified by it will lie within that interval.
More words in this category
class interval
complementary distribution
demography
discrete
dispersion
interquartile
median
multimode
noisy
orthogonal
r
sample point
standard deviation
statistical
statistician
stratum
survival curve
trough
variate
Nearby Words
pro-nuncio
pro-vice-chancellor
proa
proactive
proactive interference
prob
probabilistic
probability
probability density function
probability distribution
probability theory
probable
probable cause
probably
proband
probang
probate
probation
probation officer