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Re: [lojban] Normal



At 10:02 AM 6/22/2001, Pierre Abbat wrote:
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, John Cowan wrote:
>Pierre Abbat scripsit:
>
>> Does {cnano} mean "norm" or "average"? How would you express "The average
>> height of the river is normally two meters, but now it's six, and they don't
>> follow a normal distribution"?
>
>I think it can be applied to any measure of central tendency, and
>then one can coin lujvo for mean, median, mode, etc.

Okay, how about cafna'o for mode, porna'o for median, kajna'o for mean, and
na'orcu'o for the normal distribution? The first three have x1, x2, x3 of
cnano; na'orcu'o is less obvious:

na'orcu'o: x1 is random under conditions x2, with normal distribution x3, with
mean x4 and standard deviation x5

phma

I would suggest  the place structure

na'orcu'o: x1 is random with a normal distribution, and has mean x2, and SD x3

I believe that this order reflects the frequency of use of the places, and I don't see the value of a "conditions" place. The conditions on x1 can be expressed within the statement of x1. There is only one normal distribution, and it is specified entirely by its mean and SD.