The Aspiring Statistican’s Introduction to Random Variables

When it comes to yelling “Surprise!”, the universe never gets tired.

In this article, we’ll take a contemplative walk across the land of chance. We’ll learn about random walks, about discrete and continuous random variables, and about their probability distributions. We’ll understand why it’s meaningless to assign a probability to a continuous random variable’s value. And in doing so, we’ll unearth the meaning of probability density. We’ll learn how random processes are …

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