Expectation

Also: expected value, mean

The long-run average of a random quantity, each outcome weighted by its probability.

What people get wrong

It need not be a value that can actually occur, and on skewed data it is a poor summary — which is why latency is reported in percentiles rather than as an average.

A definition is not an understanding. This is taught properly in The distributions you will actually meet, part of Probability & statistics.

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