• equal-mean gambles, it is not necessarily true that either is a mean-preserving spread of the other. Distribution A is said to be a mean-preserving contraction...
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  • same mean (so that the random variable y {\displaystyle y} degenerates to the fixed number 0), then ν {\displaystyle \nu } is a mean-preserving spread of...
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    probability density function while leaving the mean (the expected value) unchanged. The concept of a mean-preserving spread provides a partial ordering of probability...
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    their arithmetic mean is 2.5. In particular, this means that when a set of non-identical numbers is subjected to a mean-preserving spread — that is, the...
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  • subjected to a mean-preserving spread — that is, two or more elements of the set are "spread apart" from each other while leaving the arithmetic mean unchanged...
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  • to describe quantum many-body states Marginal propensity to save Mean-preserving spread, in probability and statistics Mail Preference Service, the Robinson...
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  • if A is a mean-preserving spread of B. This means that the probability density function of A can be formed, roughly speaking, by "spreading out" that...
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  • tendency Invariant estimator Location parameter Location-scale family Mean-preserving spread Scale mixture Shape parameter Statistical dispersion Prokhorov,...
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  • Stiglitz introduced the important decision theory concept of the mean-preserving spread, which leads to a partial ordering of probability distributions...
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    functions is such that they will only cross once. For example, a mean-preserving spread will result in an altered probability distribution whose cumulative...
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  • (disambiguation) Mean difference Mean integrated squared error Mean of circular quantities Mean percentage error Mean preserving spread Mean reciprocal rank Mean signed...
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  • website's consensus reads: "Preserving the essence of the original while adding a few new wrinkles – not to mention musical numbers – Mean Girls is a sweet (if...
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    of vaginal, anal or oral sex, which may also be their personal way of preserving virginity or their way of practicing safer sex. Often, young people will...
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    Princeton University; known for introducing the concept of the mean-preserving spread with co-author Joseph Stiglitz Ross Starr N/A (Did not graduate)...
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  • in the sense that the expected return on type B projects is a mean preserving spread of type A projects; they have the same expected return, but higher...
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  • movement in the 1st century in the Roman province of Judea, from where it spread throughout and beyond the Roman Empire. Christianity "emerged as a movement...
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    Fruit curd (category Spreads (food))
    a dessert spread and topping. It is usually made with citrus fruit, though may be made with other fruits. Curds are often used as spreads and as flavourings...
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  • fraction of a normal curve that lies within six standard deviations of the mean, used to represent a defect rate. Motorola pioneered Six Sigma, setting a...
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  • the oatmeal: they preserve the measure that is density. The formal definition is as follows: Let T : X → X be a measure-preserving transformation on a...
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    done entire justice. I mean that new revelation of right which has been designated as the right of our manifest destiny to spread over this whole continent...
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    in Llanfairpwll in 1915, and the movement (which began in Canada) then spread through the rest of the British Isles. The original name of the medieval...
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    1906, conservationist Charles Alexander Sheldon conceived the idea of preserving the Denali region as a national park. He presented the plan to his co-members...
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  • and that he has been hunting them down in order to prevent them from spreading the virus to the rest of humanity. The hitman explains that the reporter...
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  • {\displaystyle P} is from the mean of D {\displaystyle D} . This distance is zero for P {\displaystyle P} at the mean of D {\displaystyle D} and grows...
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    causing climate change. Alternative terms for the same thing are global mean surface temperature (GMST) or global average surface temperature. Series...
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    (December 15, 2022). "ChatGPT a 'landmark event' for AI, but what does it mean for the future of human labor and disinformation?". CBC. Archived from the...
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