R E F E R E N C E S
Distribution n [14c] 1a: the act or process of distributing b: the apportionment by a court of the personal property of an intestate 2a: the position, arrangement, or frequency of occurence [as of the members of a group] over an area or throughout a space or unit of time b: the natural geographic range of an organism 3a: something distributed b [1] Frequency Distribution [2] Probability Function [3]: Probability Density Function2 4: the pattern of branching and termination of a ramifying structure [as a nerve] 5: the marketing or merchandisng of commodities
Distributive adj [15c] 1: of or relating to distribution: as a: dealing a proper share to each of a group b: diffusing more or less evenly 2 of a word: referring singly and without exception to the members of a group [each, either, and none are __] 3a: being an operation [as multiplication in a[b + c] = ab + ac] that produces the same result when operating on the whole mathematical expression as when operating on each part and collecting the results b: being or relating to a rule or property concerning a distributive operation [the __ property of multiplication with respect to addition]
Distribution Function n [ca. 1909]: a function that gives the probability that a random variable is less than or equal to the independent variable of the function
[Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th Edition. Springfield, MA, USA: Merriam-Webster, Inc. 1995.]
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