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MEAN VALUE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n
Synonyms:
mean; mean value
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("mean value" is a kind of...):
average; norm (a statistic describing the location of a distribution)
Domain 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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mean value"):
arithmetic mean; expectation; expected value; first moment (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)
