From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Fri Jun 22 10:06:31 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 22 Jun 2001 17:06:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 95002 invoked from network); 22 Jun 2001 17:06:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 22 Jun 2001 17:06:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta3 with SMTP; 22 Jun 2001 17:06:30 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 15DUO4-0001fh-00 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:06:28 -0700 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:06:28 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Normal Message-ID: <20010622100628.N8816@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: <0106221042350D.02301@neofelis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0106221042350D.02301@neofelis> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i From: Robin Lee Powell On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 01:02:20PM -0400, 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 Uhhh, what would you put in the x3 place, exactly? Hey, Jay, you got that dictionary program up yet? 8) -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/