In the past decade an average of almost 400 events each year have met the U.N.criteria for a natural disaster.

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If you have a sample with n observations, it's the summation I = 1 to n of xi/n--that's the average.

如果你有n个观测值,对Xi从i=1到n求和再除以n

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