expected value
Statistics, Mathematics. mathematical expectation.
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In some sense, then, the expected value of your insurance premium is negative.
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This can decrease the expected value of crime, without wasting an entire human life behind bars.
British Dictionary definitions for expected value
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 constant: Also called: mathematical expectation
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