relative frequency

noun Statistics.

the ratio of the number of times an event occurs to the number of occasions on which it might occur in the same period.

Words nearby relative frequency

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British Dictionary definitions for relative frequency

relative frequency

noun

  1. the ratio of the actual number of favourable events to the total possible number of events; often taken as an estimate of probability
  2. the proportion of the range of a random variable taking a given value or lying in a given interval