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noun Statistics.
a quantity that takes any of a set of values with specified probabilities.
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Also called variate.

Origin of random variable

First recorded in 1935–40

Words nearby random variable

random number, random number generator, random numbers, random rubble, random sampling, random variable, random walk, random walk theory, R and R, Randwick, randy
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British Dictionary definitions for random variable

random variable
noun
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 probabilisticallyAbbreviation: rv
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