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Notation for sampling a random variable
my question is pretty much the same as the one asked here: Notation for sampling random variate (I did not find a satisfying answer there...):
I have a random variable $X \sim U(1, 10)$. I want to ...
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How to denote a random variable and the set of possible values
I'm curious what the most common way is to denote a random variable and the set of possible values that it can take on. I doesn't seem correct to say, for instance: $r.v.\ X \in \{\ldots\}$, because ...
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What exactly does this physically mean?
Let X(w) be a real random variable on ($\Omega$ , P). The image X($\Omega$) the set of all the values X(w) can take ,written $\Omega^{X}$. For any set $ B \subset \Omega^{X}$ the probability of the ...
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How a random variable takes a value?
Why do mathematicians say a random variable takes on a value? Is it just for convenience? My understanding is that a random variable is a function mapping the sample space of an experiment to a ...
