Greek Small Letter Mu

μ
Symbol Format Data
μ Code Point
U+03BC
TeX
\mu
SVG
All symbols

Usage

The Greek letter (mu) is used in statistics to represent the population mean of a distribution.

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The x bar (x̄) symbol is used in statistics to represent the sample mean, or average, of a set of values. It's calculated by adding up all the numbers in the sample and then dividing by the number of values in that sample.

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The Greek capital letter Μ is visually very similar to the Latin capital letter M. For that reason, refer to the usage of the Latin capital letter M for math usage.

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Population Mean

The population mean formula gives the average value of the whole population.