Empirical Frequency

An Empirical Frequency is a Frequency that is based on the Count of Events that meet a certain criteria.

• Context:
  • It can be an Experimental Frequency (for random experiment outcomes).
• Example(s):
  • “It rained five days this summer.”
• Counter-Example(s):
  • an Expected Frequency, such as: “It will rain five days this summary”.
  • an Analytic Frequency, such as for a Gaussian distribution.
• See: Frequency Value, Frequency Function.

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References

2002

• http://www.teacherlink.org/content/math/interactive/probability/glossary/glossary.html
  • Empirical Frequency: The number of times an outcome has been observed to occur during repeated trials of an experiment; also called Experimental Frequency.

2000

• Math.com. (2000). “Glossary, http://www.math.com/school/glossary/defs/frequency.html
  • frequency: The number of times a particular item appears in a data set.

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