"expected value" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ɪkˈspɛkt.ɪd ˈval.juː/ [Received-Pronunciation, contemporary], /ɪkˈspɛkt.ɪd ˈvæl.juː/ (note: Received Pronunciation, conservatism), /ɪkˈspɛkt.ɪd ˈvæl.ju/ [Canada, General-American], /ɪkˈspekt.ɪd ˈvæl.jʉː/ [General-Australian], /əkˈspekt.əd ˈvɛl.jʉː/ [New-Zealand], /ɪkˈspɛkt.ɪd ˈval.jʉ/ [Scotland], /ɪkˈspɛkʈ.ɪɖ ˈval.juː/ [India] Forms: expected values [plural]
enPR: ĭk-spĕkt′ĭd văl′yo͞o Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} expected value (countable and uncountable, plural expected values)
  1. (probability theory) The weighted average of outcome values, using probability as the weighting function. Wikidata QID: Q200125 Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: expectation, expectancy, expectation operator, mathematical expectation, mean, expectation value, first moment Related terms: moment [mathematics, sciences] Coordinate_terms: mean Translations (weighted average of outcomes): матема́тическо оча́кване (matemátičesko očákvane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), střední hodnota [feminine] (Czech), forventningsværdi [common-gender] (Danish), verwachtingswaarde [feminine] (Dutch), odotusarvo (Finnish), espérance mathématique [feminine] (French), espérance [feminine] (French), Erwartungswert [masculine] (German), תּוֹחֶלֶת (tokhélet) [feminine] (Hebrew), væntanlegt gildi [neuter] (Icelandic), væntigildi [neuter] (Icelandic), meðalgildi [neuter] (Icelandic), valore atteso [masculine] (Italian), математик дундаж (matematik dundaž) (Mongolian), forventningsverdi [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), wartość oczekiwana [feminine] (Polish), математи́ческое ожида́ние (matematíčeskoje ožidánije) [neuter] (Russian), esperanza matemática [feminine] (Spanish), esperanza [feminine] (Spanish), valor esperado [masculine] (Spanish), väntevärde [neuter] (Swedish)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-12-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-12-02 using wiktextract (6fdc867 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.