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The material of this chapter corresponds basically to Chapters 4 and 5 of the textbook by B. V. GNEDENKO. Recall that by a random variable we understand a (measurable)1) function on the space of elementary events Ω = ω.

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© 1973 Noordhoff International Publishing, Leyden, The Netherlands

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Meshalkin, L.D. (1973). Random variables and their properties. In: Collection of problems in probability theory. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2358-0_3

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