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noun

Statistics, Mathematics. mathematical expectation.

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Origin of expected value

First recorded in 1945–50

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How to use expected value in a sentence

Indeed, every teacher is expected to be a Muslim by birth or conversion.
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He is expected to spend the next few days closeted with lawyers and advisers at his home, Royal Lodge, in Windsor Great Park.
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But there's a ton of value for me in my background and my history, and losing it would be a shame.
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There is reference after reference to the “black community,” “black worth ethic,” and adherence to the “black value system.”
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As Randy notes, “Maybe there is a value in shining a light on this and asking the questions.”
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Other things being equal, the volume of voice used measures the value that the mind puts upon the thought.
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Hilda, trembling at the door, more than half expected Mr. Orgreave to say: "You mean, she's invited herself."
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Of course the expression of this value is modified and characterized by the nature of the thing spoken of.
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It is only just to say, that the officers exhibited a degree of courage far beyond any thing we had expected from them.
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Of course it is only the hardiest Ferns which can be expected to grow well in the town garden.
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British Dictionary definitions for expected value

expected value

noun

statistics the sum or integral of all possible values of a random variable, or any given function of it, multiplied by the respective probabilities of the values of the variable. Symbol: E (X). E (X) is the mean of the distribution; E (X–c) = E (X)– c where c is a constantAlso called: mathematical expectation

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expected value

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