multinomial
adjective/ˌmʌltiˈnoʊmiəl/
Frequency rank: #19,794 most common English word
Meaning
involving or relating to an expression or distribution with multiple terms or categories.
Example sentence
The statistician used multinomial regression to model outcomes with more than two categories.
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