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WEIGHTING

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Dictionary entry overview: What does weighting mean?

• WEIGHTING (noun)
The noun WEIGHTING has 1 sense:

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

Familiarity information: WEIGHTING used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• WEIGHTING (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

weighting; weight

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)

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