Re: Mean, median, mode = average???

[GrantBlair@aol.com]

In a message dated 5/5/2001 5:27:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
BRUCE.A.MARKS@usa.dupont.com writes:

<< In plainer language, that means as 
 you collect more and more points the mean of 
 your sample should get closer and closer to 
 the mean of the process. >>

Assuming you are taking a graduate level Statistics course, you will learn 
that
the Expected Value of a ANY distribution shares this property, that is, the
first moment of the distribution is the expected value, and the second moment 
is
the variation. For a normal distribution these are the mean and sigma squared,
for the Poisson, mean and variation are identical, etc.

GrantBlair@aol.com
Ninety Six SC