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probability mass function

[‚präb·ə′bil·əd·ē ¦mas ‚fəŋk·shən]
(statistics)
A function which gives the relative frequency of each possible value of the random variable in an experiment involving a discrete set of outcomes. Abbreviated p.m.f.
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