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Expectation - Introduction
Course Topic(s): Probability | Expected Value, definition and basic properties
This web page contains the definition of expected value for discrete distributions, and also one example comparing two choices to show which has the largest expected value.
Resource URL: http://www.cut-the-knot.org/Probability/Expectation.shtml
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Subject classification(s):
Statistics and Probability
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Probability
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Univariate Distributions
Creator(s): Alexander Bogomolny
Contributor(s): Alexander Bogomolny
This resource was cataloged by Lisa Green
Publisher:cuttheknot.org
Resource copyright: Copyright © 1996-2012 Alexander Bogomolny
This review was published on October 10, 2012
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