• relative frequency, frequency per million [ statistics ]

    (also called freq/mill in the interface) is a number of occurrences of an item per million tokens, also called i.p.m. (instances per million). It is used to compare frequencies between corpora (or datasets) of different sizes.

    Formula

    number of hits : corpus size in millions of tokens = frequency per million (an alternative calculation producing the same result) raw frequency : corpus size in tokens × 1000000 = frequency per million (more…)