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 |
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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 |
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Narrower | arithmetic mean, first moment, expectation, expected value | The sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values |
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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 |
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Spanish | media |
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Catalan | media, mitjana |
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