Expected value

Other forms: expected values

Definitions of expected value

noun
the sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values

synonyms: arithmetic mean, expectation, first moment

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type of:
mean, mean value
an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n

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