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Glossary

• Determniistic [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Mean [r]: e.g. "arithmetic mean", being the sum of n observations divided by n, or "geometric mean", being the nth root of the product of n observations. ^[e]
• Median (statistics) [r]: The value of a numerical or linearly ordered sample for which one half of the observations lie above and one half lie below that value. ^[e]
• Mode (statistics) [r]: the most frequently ocurring value. ^[e]
• Normal distribution [r]: a symmetrical bell-shaped probability distribution representing the frequency of random variations of a quantity from its mean. ^[e]
• Standard deviation [r]: A statistical measure for the fluctuation of a random variable about its mean value (the square root of the variance). ^[e]
• Stochastic [r]: of a random nature (sometimes contrasted with deterministic). ^[e]
• Variance [r]: A statistical measure of the variability of a random quantity (defined as the mean squared deviation from the mean value). ^[e]