expected value

1. 1.

   the sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values

   Synonymsarithmetic meanfirst momentexpectation

   Broadermean

   statistics

Questions about expected value

What does expected value mean?

expected value means "the sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values".

What is another word for expected value?

Close synonyms include arithmetic mean, first moment, expectation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.