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mathematical expectation

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mathematical expectation

–noun
1. Mathematics. the product of the probability of the occurrence of an event and the value associated with the occurrence of a given event.
2. Statistics. the summation or integration, over all values of a variate, of the product of the variate and its probability or its probability density.


Origin:
1830–40
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