Weighting (original) (raw)

I. (noun)

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Meaning:

(statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance

Synonyms:

weight; weighting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("weighting" is a kind of...):

coefficient (a constant number that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic)

Domain category:

statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)

II. (verb)

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb weight

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