Expected value
LONG-RUN AVERAGE VALUE OF A RANDOM VARIABLE
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In probability theory, the expected value (also called expectation, expectancy, mathematical expectation, mean, average, or first moment) is a generalization of the weighted average. Informally, the expected value is the arithmetic mean of a large number of independently selected outcomes of a random variable.