Accumulation

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Cumulation (also cumulation ; from Latin cumulus , "accumulation", "accumulation") denotes:

Mathematics:

  • Cumulative frequency , in statistics the additive increase in a frequency distribution with each additional value
  • in the area of ​​tabular stochastics ( binomial distribution ), meaning "addition" - it describes probability values ​​that are made up of individual probability values ​​(are added); the individual probabilities depend on the length of the chain (“n”), the desired event space / “hit” (“k”) and the probability of this event space / these hits (“p”).

Medicine and Toxicology:

Humanities:

  • Cumulative facts , in jurisprudence facts of a norm that must be met together in order for the legal consequence to occur
  • a mode with voting rights, see cumulating

University system:

  • Cumulative dissertation , an (inaugural) dissertation in which, instead of a monograph, several publications are summarized in specialist journals
  • Cumulative habilitation , an (inaugural) habilitation in which a bundle of several scientific papers is presented instead of a habilitation thesis


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Wiktionary: cumulative  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Wiktionary: cumulate  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Wiktionary: Cumulation  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations