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Glossary

  • Determniistic [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Mean [r]: e.g. "arithmetic mean", being the sum of n observations divided by n, or "geometric mean", being the nth root of the product of n observations. [e]
  • Median (statistics) [r]: The value of a numerical or linearly ordered sample for which one half of the observations lie above and one half lie below that value. [e]
  • Mode (statistics) [r]: the most frequently ocurring value. [e]
  • Normal distribution [r]: a symmetrical bell-shaped probability distribution representing the frequency of random variations of a quantity from its mean. [e]
  • Standard deviation [r]: A statistical measure for the fluctuation of a random variable about its mean value (the square root of the variance). [e]
  • Stochastic [r]: of a random nature (sometimes contrasted with deterministic). [e]
  • Variance [r]: A statistical measure of the variability of a random quantity (defined as the mean squared deviation from the mean value). [e]