Subject: Re: [lojban] Normal

From: Robin Lee Powell <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:06:28 -0700

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

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