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coefficient vs weighting

weighting vs coefficient

coefficient and weighting both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
coefficient Yes No No No
weighting Yes No No No
As nouns, weighting is a hyponym of coefficient; that is, weighting is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than coefficient:
  • coefficient: a constant number that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic
  • weighting: (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance
coefficient (noun) weighting (noun)
a constant number that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance
Difference between coefficient and weighting

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