expected value

The expected value of trees that will fall is 20.

Including the expected value of his options, he has been making more than $11 million a year.

The result was a yield three times the expected value.

The expected value is based on the whole population from which the individual was chosen.

Expected value is the average result, over the long term, that somebody can expect to see from a given decision.

The variance is not simply the average difference from the expected value.

Therefore, the expected value of following a certain religion could be negative.

The expected value of the contract was approximately $500 million.

He then compared each draft pick's performance with his expected value.

In making a bet where your expected value is positive, you are said to be getting "the best of it".

The procedure now referred to as expected value was known from the 17th century.

"Nobody ever put it together in quite that way, but it's an expected value table," he says.

The second follows directly from the definition of expected value.

The main difference between the two methods is how the expected values are derived.

Where risk is involved, either in the costs or the benefits, the concept of expected value may be employed.

This means that in the long run, the average of the observed values will get ever closer to the expected value.

Thus the final offer was more than the expected value, something that is seen rarely, if not never, on the foreign versions.

From this discussion, the notion of expected value was introduced.

The company declined to comment on the expected value of the offering.

These are only the expected values of and for the state .

The expected value is then discounted at r, the risk free rate.

Belief that a sample's average must equal its expected value.

In one important special case the mixture is a weighted average, or expected value.

Based on this information you should maximize the expected value of your bet.

Then, the expected value and other moments of this function can be determined.