From phma@oltronics.net Fri Jun 22 10:04:36 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 22 Jun 2001 17:04:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 89833 invoked from network); 22 Jun 2001 17:04:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 22 Jun 2001 17:04:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (207.15.133.33) by mta3 with SMTP; 22 Jun 2001 17:04:32 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 0BBD03C566; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 13:04:28 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Normal Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 13:02:20 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0106221042350D.02301@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat 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