random variable

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But by Wednesday evening there was little in the way of organized protests or random unrest in the area.
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It is small in cloudy swelling from toxins and drugs, and variable in renal tuberculosis and neoplasms.
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Firing a random volley, those that lived turned and fled, pursued by the scouts.
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The blows stung, and Black Sheep struck back at random with all the power at his command.
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Its disadvantage is that it introduces, with the bread, a variable amount of lactic acid and numerous yeast-cells.
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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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