Difference between revisions of "Expectation (math)"
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The expectation with respect to some function <math>g(X)</math> where <math>X</math> is distributed according to <math>f(x)</math> is | The expectation with respect to some function <math>g(X)</math> where <math>X</math> is distributed according to <math>f(x)</math> is | ||
Revision as of 23:10, February 27, 2009
The mathematical expectation of a continuously distributed random variable with probability density function is
![{\displaystyle {\mbox{E}}[X]=\int \limits _{-\infty }^{\infty }xf(x)dx.}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/9cc4a1723078d7a453b6541d844edf798c377f05)
The expectation is also known as the mean of .
The expectation with respect to some function where is distributed according to is
![{\displaystyle {\mbox{E}}[g(X)]=\int \limits _{-\infty }^{\infty }g(x)f(x)dx.}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/46ed321df16947ba8913e344b3bedd17e451005f)
For a discretely distributed random variable with probability mass function it is
![{\displaystyle {\mbox{E}}[X]=\sum _{k}p_{k}x_{k}.}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/3680c282419a8c960e43e5541dd016022f625617)