most probable distribution (in macromolecular assemblies)

A discrete distribution with the differential mass-distribution function of the form:

$f w x = a 2 x ( 1 − a ) x − 1$

where $x$ is a parameter characterizing the chain length, such as relative molecular mass or degree of polymerization and $a$ is a positive adjustable parameter. For large values of $x$ , the most probable distribution converges to the particular case of the Schulz–Zimm distribution with $b = 1$ . In the literature, this distribution is sometimes referred to as the Flory distribution or the Schulz–Flory distribution.

Source:

Purple Book, p. 56