Holistic Health. Weight gain that occurs when your weight increases without increasing your food intake has many causes. Thyroid hormone deficiency may slow metabolism, resulting in weight gain from fat gain and water retention.
used when the range is large and classes several units in width are needed ungrouped frequency distribution used for numerical data and when range of data is small; each class is only one unit
Gallery of Common Distributions. Detailed information on a few of the most common distributions is available below. There are a large number of distributions used in statistical applications. It is beyond the scope of this Handbook to discuss more than a few of these. Two excellent sources for additional detailed information on a large array of distributions are Johnson, Kotz, and Balakrishnan and Evans, Hastings, and Peacock.