Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

probability mass function

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.90 in modern English

Syllables: prob-a-bil-i-ty -mass -func-tion
IPA

39

Scrabble Score

23

Letters

8

Syllables

15

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A function that gives the relative probability that a discrete random variable is exactly equal to some value.

Inflected Forms

probability mass functions (plural) pmf (alternative, initialism)

Questions

What does probability mass function mean?: A function that gives the relative probability that a discrete random variable is exactly equal to some value.

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