simple average
Example Sentences
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The Nifty Fifty fetched about 47 times earnings at their peak, which is higher than a simple average of today’s champs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 24, 2026
Bollinger bands consist of three lines: the middle band tracks a stock’s 20-day simple average, and the upper and lower bands are set two standard deviations away from the middle.
From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026
Once we had those three numbers for each of the starting Super Bowl quarterbacks, we averaged them together using the harmonic mean rather than a simple average.
From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2021
What statistics provides us beyond a simple average, or point estimate, is an estimate to which we can attach a probability of accuracy, what we will call a confidence level.
From Textbooks • Nov. 29, 2017
A simple, average tourist, a little on the square side, and not even particularly articulate.
From Combat by Reynolds, Mack
