Keskimääräisestä

Keskimääräisestä is a Finnish inflected form of the adjective keskimääräinen, meaning "average" or "mean." It appears when the adjective is used with a noun in the elative case, indicating source or reference to the average. Finnish adjectives decline to agree with the noun they modify, so keskimääräisestä is the elative singular form.

Usage and meaning:

In everyday and technical language, keskimääräinen describes something that relates to or is characteristic of an average value, but the standard statistical terms for central tendency are keskiarvo (mean) and keskihajonta (standard deviation). The elative form keskimääräisestä commonly occurs in phrases that mean "from/about the average" or "concerning the average" depending on the sentence structure. For example, keskimääräisestä arviosta means "from/about the average estimate," and keskimääräisestä palkan kehityksestä would refer to the development of the average salary.

Relation to other terms:

- Keskimääräinen (adjective): the base form meaning "average."

- Keskiarvo: the mathematical mean.

- Mediaani: the median.

Keskimääräistä, as a surface form, is not a standalone concept but a grammatical inflection used when describing a noun in a specific case related to the average.

See also:

Keskimääräinen, keskiarvo, mediaani, tilastotiede.