Subject: Re: [lojban] Normal

From: Pierre Abbat <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 13:02:20 -0400

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