Relative expected frequency
What Relative expected frequency means in Mathematics GCSE, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
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The expected proportion of times an outcome occurs over many trials, expressed on the 0 to 1 scale, found by dividing the expected frequency count by the total number of trials.
Expected event frequency divided by the number of trials; under a model with E = np, this equals p.
Topics that use Relative expected frequency
- Probability (AQA GCSE)
- Probability (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Equally likely outcomes
- expected outcomes
- Independent and dependent events
- Independent Events
- Mutually Exclusive
- Mutually exclusive events
- relative frequency
- Sample space
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