expected value

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You find out today whether you’ve “won,” and that instant verdict hits harder than any lesson in expected value.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025

But for Dyne, Matteis believes the deal for Avidity is “highly validating,” as it corroborates the expected value of muscle-delivery technology and the attractiveness of the markets for even rare diseases like DMD.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 27, 2025

He said customers wanted to see investment and improvements to services, but also expected "value for money and to be treated fairly".

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2025

The researchers found that this shift to the surebet occurred mostly for the choices near the boundary where the expected value of the lottery was only slightly higher than the value of the surebet.

From Science Daily • Oct. 19, 2023

The expected value of a quantity is simply the average of its values weighted according to their probabilities.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos