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FIRST MOMENT

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Dictionary entry overview: What does first moment mean?

• FIRST MOMENT (noun)
The noun FIRST MOMENT has 1 sense:

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

Familiarity information: FIRST MOMENT used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• FIRST MOMENT (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

arithmetic mean; expected value; first moment; expectation

Hypernyms ("first moment" is a kind of...):

mean; mean value (an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n)

Domain category:

statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)

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