The phrase "adopted mean" is not correct in written English.
It seems to be a misunderstanding or a typo, as "adopted" and "mean" do not typically go together in this context.
Example: "The adopted mean of the data set was calculated to be 50."
Alternatives: "accepted average" or "established mean."
"Mama, what does adopted mean?" my daughter asked me one day last year, to my great surprise.
"The secret dealings and multiple personas that Monis adopted mean that we will never know how many others there were or may have been," Ierace said.
The gravitational field generated by the ocean density contrast (relative to an adopted mean Earth's density) represents a significant amount of the gravitational signal to be modeled and subsequently removed from observed gravity data.
21 Our review adopted mean reduction in LDL cholesterol concentration from baseline as the primary outcome of interest for two important reasons.
However, the authors adopted mean values of blood creatinine concentrations as the study outcome, without using a specific cut-off (such as creatinine concentration >0.20 mmol/L) to define acute kidney injury.
But I knew that being adopted meant I had come to my mom through other means of origin beyond her belly, which did not leverage the same physical access to her body that those who came from it did.
Overall, the most widely adopted means of cutting labour costs has been to lay off temporary employees.
A general and well adopted means of improving the optical properties of the Qdots is passivation of its surface with a shell material.
Being adopted means a lifetime of either searching or denial.
Unlike others, being adopted meant that I could not access my OBC.
Leading companies are certainly adopting means by which to evaluate the success of suppliers in the area of environmental impact.
