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This chapter treats certain functions having as their domain a probability space. Such functions, known as ‘random variables’, have the property that they transform one probability space into another. In applications, random variables often represent what is actually observed in an experiment. Thus, in specific examples, it may be more descriptive to call them by such names as ‘random numbers’, ‘random sequences of heads and tails of a coin’, and ‘random chords of a circle’.
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Fristedt, B., Gray, L. (1997). Random Variables. In: A Modern Approach to Probability Theory. Probability and its Applications. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2837-5_2
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