But that view of 1987 might better be described as a statistical average rather than a consensus.
Although the idea of an average person or an average family (with a fractional number of children) now seems unremarkable, it helped to make possible the statistical analysis of social questions.More remarkably still, it also suggested that a statistical average could be meaningful even in a very diverse population.
"Life expectancy" is a statistical average.
A statistical average provides meaningful information about a population, but not an individual.
Supposing that and are Chi-square distributed with degree 2 and being the statistical average of, then we have the following lower bound: (10).
The mean m μ ̂ ( t ) of the stochastic process μ ̂ ( t ) is obtained by computing the statistical average of (20) with respect to the random characteristics of the frequencies f n.
Then, the ACF r μ ̂ μ ̂ ( t 1, t 2 ) of the stochastic process μ ̂ ( t ) is obtained by computing the statistical average of (31) with respect to the random characteristics of the frequencies f n.
Regarding the postextraction pain, patients enrolled in the study reported a mean value of the study sites of 3.2 ± 0.3, which is lower (P < 0.0001) than the mean value of the control sites (4.5 ± 0.7), with a statistical difference average of 0.9 ± 0.3.
Boltzmann introduced the hypothesis in developing classical statistical mechanics; it was used to provide a suitable basis for identifying macroscopic quantities with statistical averages of microscopic quantities, such as the identification of gas temperature with the mean kinetic energy of the gas molecules.
We have developed Fourier transform light scattering (FTLS) as a novel optical method that combines the high spatial resolution associated with optical microscopy and statistical averaging of light scattering techniques [ 17].
In years of conversation, the subject of food ingredients, preferences, recipes, techniques came up maybe a few dozen times, probably on par with the statistical average for any subject matter.
