| NOUN | cognition | mean value, mean | an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n |
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| Meaning | An average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n. | |
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| Synonym | mean | |
| Category | statistics | A branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters |
| Narrower | arithmetic mean, first moment, expectation, expected value | The sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values |
| geometric mean | The mean of n numbers expressed as the n-th root of their product | |
| harmonic mean | The mean of n numbers expressed as the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of the numbers | |
| Broader | average, norm | A statistic describing the location of a distribution |
| Spanish | media | |
| Catalan | media, mitjana | |
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