Ricardo A. Olea 2021 <p><span>Given a numerical dataset, a frequency distribution is a summary displaying fluctuations of an attribute within the range of values. In contrast to an analytical probability distribution, a frequency distribution always deals with empirically observed values (Everitt and Skondall&nbsp;</span><span class="CitationRef"><a title="View reference" href="https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-26050-7_125-1#CR3" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="popup-references" data-mce-href="https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-26050-7_125-1#CR3">2010</a></span><span>). In general, the larger the number of values, the more useful is the frequency distribution relative to listing all values. Today, multiple software packages allow easy display of a frequency distribution.</span></p> application/pdf 10.1007/978-3-030-26050-7 en Frequency distribution chapter