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expected mean vs calculated mean squares
Message posted by H. Cole on December 11, 1999 at 12:00 AM (ET)

What is the difference and how are they simular?


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Re: expected mean vs calculated mean squares
Message posted by JG on December 11, 1999 at 12:00 AM (ET)

Mean or arithmetic mean or expected value is one definition of average. See business statistics for further details. Mean squared error is another name for variance when not corrected for degrees of freedom.



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