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In Chapter 3 we saw that a frequency distribution is a listing of the values which a variable takes, together with a count (i.e. the frequency of occurrence), of the number of times each value occurs. In Chapter 6 we saw that an ‘experiment’ gives rise to a number of possible outcome values, and we discussed ways of determining what the probability of each of these different outcomes occurring is.
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Bowers, D. (1991). Discrete Probability Distributions. In: Statistics for Economics and Business. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21346-7_7
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