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contingency table

noun

Statistics.
  1. the frequency distribution for a two-way statistical classification.


contingency table

noun

  1. statistics an array having the frequency of occurrence of certain events in each of a number of samples
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of contingency table1

First recorded in 1945–50
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Using an overhead projector, he drew a contingency table relating the relative preferences of males and females for hip hop, country and indie rock music, then used the table to explain marginal distribution.

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