the ratio of the actual number of favourable events to the total possible number of events; often taken as an estimate of probability
b.
the proportion of the range of a random variable taking a given value or lying in a given interval
relative frequency in American English
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
Examples of 'relative frequency' in a sentence
relative frequency
The results were determined in relative frequency (%).
Adna Crisléia Rodrigues Monção de Lima, Thiago Pereira Motta, Mariana Santos de Miranda,Juliana Rodrigues Pozzi Arcaro, Cláudia Rodrigues Pozzi 2013, 'California mastitis test in the diagnostic of subclinical mastitis', Boletim de Indústria Animalhttp://revistas.bvs-vet.org.br/bia/article/view/12071. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Quali-quantitative analyses were calculated following the method of relative frequency occurrence and relative frequency of the points.
Roberta Araujo Barutot, Fernando D'Incao, Duane Barros Fonseca 2011, 'Natural diet of Neohelice granulata (Dana, 1851) (Crustacea, Varunidae) in two saltmarshes of the estuarine region of the Lagoa dos Patos lagoon', Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technologyhttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132011000100012. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
We ought to know its relative frequency of occurrence, and the relative frequency with which it attains its aims.
John Venn The Logic of Chance (1888). Retrieved in 2019 from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/)
Qualitative variables are expressed as absolute and relative frequency.
Claudio Rodrigues Pires, Antonio Fernandes Moron, Rosiane Mattar, Luiz Kulay Júnior 2004, 'Avaliação da medida do comprimento do colo e da ausência do eco glandular endocervicalpara predição do parto pré-termo Evaluation of risk for preterm delivery by measurementof uterine cervix and cervical gland area', Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetríciahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-72032004000300004. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Data were analyzed using relative frequency statistics and thematic analysis.
Eric Staples, Esther Sangster-Gormley 2018, 'Supporting nurse practitioner education: Preceptorship recruitment and retention',International Journal of Nursing Scienceshttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352013217304015. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Next, consider the relative frequency of transitive and intransitive constructions.
Gayle DeDe 2015, 'Corpus-based Transitivity Biases in Individuals with Aphasia', Frontiers in Psychologyhttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/conf.fpsyg.2015.65.00080/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)