The phrase "average of the nearest" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing statistical calculations or measurements that involve finding the average value of the closest data points or items.
Example: "To determine the average of the nearest values, we will consider the three closest measurements recorded during the experiment."
Alternatives: "mean of the closest" or "average of the closest".
Any missing value at a location was estimated by the average of the nearest 5 years at the same location.
We interpolated concentrations [inverse-distance weighted average of the nearest three monitors (Marshall et al. 2008)] to each survey participant's home location.
In fact, no correlation is found between the average signal intensity of LTR sequences and the average of the nearest gene (Additional file 2; Figure S2).
The coefficient of variation (i.e. the standard deviation divided by the average) of the nearest distances provides an interesting indication about the local distance regularity around each reference point.
Bilinear interpolation determines the new value of a cell based on a weighted distance average of the nearest input cell centers, whereas majority approach determines the new value based on the most popular values within the resampling window.
The amplification, which is a function of frequency, can be expressed as: where Z S is the seismic impedance near the source and is a time-weighted average of the near-surface seismic impedance.
Genes that did not overlap with any probes were assigned the overlapping DEVA segment average or the average score of the nearest two probes.
This was expected since MNTD is the average of only the nearest neighbor distances, whereas MPD is the average of all pairwise species.
Secondly we further moderate the weighted signal to account for the average distance of the nearest neighbours to the query compound.
The average distance of the nearest two slow-translating codons are similar between the actual E. coli genes and random sequences (<6% difference); however, the probability distributions differ significantly (χ2>2000, P<10−16).
We employed inverse-distance weighted average of the three nearest monitors (Marshall et al. 2008); among the postal codes, the mean distance to the nearest O3 monitor is 3.7 km.
