Difference between revisions of "Talk:Expectation (math)"
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I think that this article should be moved to Expected Value and create a redirect from expectation (math) and expectation value to this page. Does this seem reasonable? In my experience expected value is the far more common term. [[User:AndyJM|AndyJM]] 09:59, 19 January 2009 (EST) | I think that this article should be moved to Expected Value and create a redirect from expectation (math) and expectation value to this page. Does this seem reasonable? In my experience expected value is the far more common term. [[User:AndyJM|AndyJM]] 09:59, 19 January 2009 (EST) | ||
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I think that this article should be moved to Expected Value and create a redirect from expectation (math) and expectation value to this page. Does this seem reasonable? In my experience expected value is the far more common term. AndyJM 09:59, 19 January 2009 (EST)
Both terms occur frequently in all kinds of literature. "Mathematical Expectation" is perhaps the more official math term, but "Expected Value", "Expectation Value" all occur frequently.