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In the practical treatment of statistical problems, it is wise to characterise individual outcomes of a random experiment with numerical values. A simple method is to number the individual outcomes consecutively. For example, the outcomes of throwing a die can be described by the number of the spots on the faces.
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Weltner, K., John, S., Weber, W.J., Schuster, P., Grosjean , J. (2014). Probability Distributions. In: Mathematics for Physicists and Engineers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54124-7_21
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