What does the angle bracket mean in variance formula?












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When I check the formula of variance in Mathworld which is



$$
sigma^2 equiv langle (X - mu)^2 rangle
$$



Though I'm more familiar with the other formula, I just wanted to know what does the angle bracket mean aside from the formula in variance.






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    math world defines it: and <X> denotes the expectation value of X.
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    see mathworld.wolfram.com/AngleBracket.html - the last sentence of the article proper.
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    – Glen_b♦
    15 hours ago






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    It means a physicist (or possibly a pure mathematician) is writing about probability :-).
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$begingroup$


When I check the formula of variance in Mathworld which is



$$
sigma^2 equiv langle (X - mu)^2 rangle
$$



Though I'm more familiar with the other formula, I just wanted to know what does the angle bracket mean aside from the formula in variance.






variance notation







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    math world defines it: and <X> denotes the expectation value of X.
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    $begingroup$
    see mathworld.wolfram.com/AngleBracket.html - the last sentence of the article proper.
    $endgroup$
    – Glen_b♦
    15 hours ago






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    It means a physicist (or possibly a pure mathematician) is writing about probability :-).
    $endgroup$
    – whuber♦
    13 hours ago
















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When I check the formula of variance in Mathworld which is



$$
sigma^2 equiv langle (X - mu)^2 rangle
$$



Though I'm more familiar with the other formula, I just wanted to know what does the angle bracket mean aside from the formula in variance.






variance notation







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When I check the formula of variance in Mathworld which is



$$
sigma^2 equiv langle (X - mu)^2 rangle
$$



Though I'm more familiar with the other formula, I just wanted to know what does the angle bracket mean aside from the formula in variance.






variance notation




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  • 1




    $begingroup$
    math world defines it: and <X> denotes the expectation value of X.
    $endgroup$
    – seanv507
    18 hours ago






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    $begingroup$
    see mathworld.wolfram.com/AngleBracket.html - the last sentence of the article proper.
    $endgroup$
    – Glen_b♦
    15 hours ago






  • 1




    $begingroup$
    It means a physicist (or possibly a pure mathematician) is writing about probability :-).
    $endgroup$
    – whuber♦
    13 hours ago
















  • 1




    $begingroup$
    math world defines it: and <X> denotes the expectation value of X.
    $endgroup$
    – seanv507
    18 hours ago






  • 1




    $begingroup$
    see mathworld.wolfram.com/AngleBracket.html - the last sentence of the article proper.
    $endgroup$
    – Glen_b♦
    15 hours ago






  • 1




    $begingroup$
    It means a physicist (or possibly a pure mathematician) is writing about probability :-).
    $endgroup$
    – whuber♦
    13 hours ago










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$begingroup$
math world defines it: and <X> denotes the expectation value of X.
$endgroup$
– seanv507
18 hours ago




$begingroup$
math world defines it: and <X> denotes the expectation value of X.
$endgroup$
– seanv507
18 hours ago




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$begingroup$
see mathworld.wolfram.com/AngleBracket.html - the last sentence of the article proper.
$endgroup$
– Glen_b♦
15 hours ago




$begingroup$
see mathworld.wolfram.com/AngleBracket.html - the last sentence of the article proper.
$endgroup$
– Glen_b♦
15 hours ago




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$begingroup$
It means a physicist (or possibly a pure mathematician) is writing about probability :-).
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– whuber♦
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It means a physicist (or possibly a pure mathematician) is writing about probability :-).
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It's the expected value of $(X-mu)^2$, i.e., it's the same as $sigma^2=E[(X-mu)^2]$.






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It means an inner product for the multi-dimensional case. When $X in mathbb{R}^n$ and $n geq 2$ and want to define variance, the definition of the variance is related to the inner product of $X-mu$ to itself, and denoted as $langle X-mu, X-murangle$






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    $endgroup$
    – J.G.
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    $endgroup$
    – J.G.
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    It means an inner product for the multi-dimensional case. When $X in mathbb{R}^n$ and $n geq 2$ and want to define variance, the definition of the variance is related to the inner product of $X-mu$ to itself, and denoted as $langle X-mu, X-murangle$






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      It means an inner product for the multi-dimensional case. When $X in mathbb{R}^n$ and $n geq 2$ and want to define variance, the definition of the variance is related to the inner product of $X-mu$ to itself, and denoted as $langle X-mu, X-murangle$






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        It means an inner product for the multi-dimensional case. When $X in mathbb{R}^n$ and $n geq 2$ and want to define variance, the definition of the variance is related to the inner product of $X-mu$ to itself, and denoted as $langle X-mu, X-murangle$






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