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VARIABLES
• A random variable is a statistic or an individual observation that varies in
a random manner. A discrete random variable is a random variable that
can assume only a finite or countably infinite number of possible values
(usually integers), whereas a continuous random variable is one that can
theoretically assume any value in a specified interval (i.e., continuum),
although measuring instruments limit the number of decimal places in
measurements.
• univariate data; that is, data on a single random variable. In statistics,
“multivariate” refers to more than one response or dependent variable,
not just more than one variable of interest; researchers in other fields
often use the term differently, in reference to the independent variables.
Basic Probability Measures
1. Outcome: A result or observation from an experiment, which cannot
be predicted with certainty.
2. Event: Subset of a set of all possible outcomes.
3. Probability: The relative frequency at which an event occurs in a large
number of identical experiments.
4. Random variable: A function which assigns real numbers to the
outcomes of an experiment.
5. Statistics: A function (itself a random variable) of one or more
random variables, that does not depend upon any unknown
parameters
Basic Statistics
• The cumulative distribution function (cdf) F is a unique function which gives the probability that a random variable X takes on
values less than or equal to some value x. In other word, F(x) = P(X ≤ x).
• The probability density function (pdf) f is the probability that X takes on the value x; that is, f (x) = P(X = x).
• The expected value of a random variable X is given by
Discrete: Continuous:
• the variance of a random variable X, denoted by σ2, is a measure of how the values of X are spread about the mean value. It is
defined as σ2 = E (X − µ)2 .
• t is calculated for discrete and continuous random variables, respectively, by