random variable
Noun
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Noun
random variable (plural random variables)
- (statistics, broadly) A quantity whose value is random and to which a probability distribution is assigned, such as the possible outcome of a roll of a dice.
- (statistics, formally) A measurable function from a sample space to the measurable space of possible values of the variable.
- 1996, Ron C. Mittelhammer, Mathematical Statistics for Economics and Business, Volume 78, Springer, page 45 ↗,
- Henceforth the symbol X(w) will be used for the random variable X : S \rightarrow \mathbb{R}.
- 2009, Christian Perwass, Geometric Algebra with Applications in Engineering, Springer, page 351 ↗,
- The particular example considered here is the Hilbert space of random variables.
- 2012, Scott Miller, Donald Childers, Probability and Random Processes, Elsevier (Academic Press), 2nd Edition, page 177 ↗,
- A two-dimensional random variable is a mapping of the points in the sample space to ordered pairs {x, y}. Usually, when dealing with a pair of random variables, the sample space naturally partitions itself so that it can be viewed as a combination of two simpler sample spaces.
- 1996, Ron C. Mittelhammer, Mathematical Statistics for Economics and Business, Volume 78, Springer, page 45 ↗,
- (broadly) random quantity
- (broadly) aleatory variable, stochastic variable
- German: Zufallsgröße, Zufallsvariable
- Spanish: variable aleatoria
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