meansrelated

Meansrelated is an informal, nonstandard adjective used to describe quantities, methods, or phenomena that revolve around the arithmetic mean of a data set. In statistics and data analysis, something labeled as meansrelated is typically concerned with central tendency—the value around which observations cluster—rather than dispersion or distribution shape. The term is not part of formal statistical nomenclature and is primarily found in educational texts, blogs, and discussion forums as a shorthand for a mean-centered focus.

Etymology and usage: meansrelated derives from the word mean, with the suffix -related indicating a relationship to that concept. It appears in online contexts and pedagogical material rather than in peer‑reviewed literature, where more precise terminology is preferred.

Examples and scope: meansrelated concepts include the arithmetic mean itself, the expected value in probability, and procedures that make inferences about a population mean, such as confidence intervals for a mean and tests that compare means (for example, two-sample t-tests). Linear regression can be viewed as mean modeling, since it concerns the mean of the response conditional on predictors, though it also handles variance structure and other aspects.

Relation to other terms: dispersion measures like variance and standard deviation describe spread around the mean and are not themselves meansrelated by definition, though many mean-based procedures rely on or interact with dispersion. The term remains informal; in formal writing, it is better to specify the exact mean-based concept or method being referenced.

See also: mean, expected value, t-test, ANOVA, confidence interval.