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random variable

noun

, Statistics.
  1. a quantity that takes any of a set of values with specified probabilities.


random variable

noun

  1. statistics a quantity that may take any of a range of values, either continuous or discrete, which cannot be predicted with certainty but only described probabilistically rv
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of random variable1

First recorded in 1935–40
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Example Sentences

Good institutions are not a random variable that could have popped up anywhere around the globe, in Denmark or in Somalia, with equal probability.

Like the stock market, timing is a random variable.

The myriad factors affecting innovativeness make the historian’s task paradoxically easier, by converting societal variation in innovativeness into essentially a random variable.

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