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  2. Population density - Wikipedia

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    Population density is the number of people per unit of area, usually transcribed as "per square kilometer" or square mile, and which may include or exclude, for example, areas of water or glaciers. Commonly this is calculated for a county, city, country, another territory or the entire world . The world's population is around 8,000,000,000 [3 ...

  3. Quantile - Wikipedia

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    For a finite population of N equally probable values indexed 1, …, N from lowest to highest, the k-th q-quantile of this population can equivalently be computed via the value of I p = N k/q. If I p is not an integer, then round up to the next integer to get the appropriate index; the corresponding data value is the k-th q-quantile.

  4. Empirical distribution function - Wikipedia

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    The empirical distribution function is an estimate of the cumulative distribution function that generated the points in the sample. It converges with probability 1 to that underlying distribution, according to the Glivenko–Cantelli theorem. A number of results exist to quantify the rate of convergence of the empirical distribution function to ...

  5. Mode (statistics) - Wikipedia

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    Mode (statistics) In statistics, the mode is the value that appears most often in a set of data values. [1] If X is a discrete random variable, the mode is the value x at which the probability mass function takes its maximum value (i.e., x=argmaxxi P (X = xi) ). In other words, it is the value that is most likely to be sampled.

  6. Cumulative density function - Wikipedia

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    Cumulative density function is a self-contradictory phrase resulting from confusion between: probability density function, and. cumulative distribution function. The two words cumulative and density contradict each other. The value of a density function in an interval about a point depends only on probabities of sets in arbitrarily small ...

  7. Number density - Wikipedia

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    Number density. The number density (symbol: n or ρN) is an intensive quantity used to describe the degree of concentration of countable objects ( particles, molecules, phonons, cells, galaxies, etc.) in physical space: three-dimensional volumetric number density, two-dimensional areal number density, or one-dimensional linear number density.

  8. Sex ratio - Wikipedia

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    Countries with the same number of males and females (accounting that the ratio has 3 significant figures, i.e., 1.00 males to 1.00 females). Countries with more females than males. A sex ratio is the ratio of males to females in a population. As explained by Fisher's principle, for evolutionary reasons this is typically about 1:1 in species ...

  9. Multinomial distribution - Wikipedia

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    In probability theory, the multinomial distribution is a generalization of the binomial distribution. For example, it models the probability of counts for each side of a k -sided dice rolled n times. For n independent trials each of which leads to a success for exactly one of k categories, with each category having a given fixed success ...