arbitrary mean

The events and people it depicts exist as an almost arbitrary means; they could be replaced by others without great effect.

Such prohibitions can not be used as an arbitrary means to limit cooperation under the regulation and are subject to judicial review.

Preverbs can add either directionality or an arbitrary meaning to the verb.

Or: "Grief had a painter's eye, assigning arbitrary meaning at random-like God."

The noncentral chi-squared distribution generalizes this to normal distributions with arbitrary mean and variance.

In "H is for House," the narrator's list of H-words has nothing to do with the film's farmhouse scenes; arbitrary meaning is the point.

The "central" versions are derived from normal distributions that have a mean of zero; the noncentral versions generalize to arbitrary means.

He cannot achieve his survival by arbitrary means nor by random motions nor by blind urges nor by chance nor by whim.

The new scale will assign an arbitrary mean score to those children with average scores, and children performing above and below the mean will be assigned higher and lower scores on the new scale.

"The violence of this plan can only by justified by results as spectacular as the arbitrary means used to achieve them," Mr. Semler continued, referring to the 18-month freeze imposed in March on most bank accounts of more than $1,500.

Extending this definition to encompass a normal distribution with arbitrary mean produces a noncentral t-distribution, while further extending it to allow a noncentral chi-squared distribution in the denominator while produces a doubly noncentral t-distribution.