From edward.cherlin.sy.67@aya.yale.edu Fri Jun 22 13:00:42 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Edward.Cherlin.SY.67@aya.yale.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 22 Jun 2001 20:00:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 546 invoked from network); 22 Jun 2001 20:00:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 22 Jun 2001 20:00:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pltn13.pbi.net) (64.164.98.22) by mta2 with SMTP; 22 Jun 2001 20:00:41 -0000 Received: from mcp.aya.yale.edu ([216.103.90.93]) by mta8.pltn13.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with ESMTP id <0GFC00LDHKX2GP@mta8.pltn13.pbi.net> for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 13:00:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 13:14:09 -0700 Subject: Re: [lojban] Normal In-reply-to: <0106221042350D.02301@neofelis> X-Sender: cherlin@postoffice.pacbell.net To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Message-id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010622130038.02d6ea70@postoffice.pacbell.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii References: From: Edward Cherlin 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.