Random variable

This glossary entry links to StatLect lectures where the term "random variable" appears.

Main lecture

The term "random variable" is introduced or explained in the following lecture:

- Random variables

Other lectures

The following is a list of some StatLect lectures where the term "random variable" is used (number of occurrences of the term in parentheses).

- Expected value (44)

- Sequences of random variables (44)

- Independent random variables (40)

- Functions of random variables and their distribution (33)

- Sums of independent random variables (32)

- Binomial distribution (31)

- Chi-square distribution (29)

- F distribution (29)

- Mean square convergence (28)

Exercises

The following is a list of some exercises where the term "random variable" appears.

- Random variables - Exercise set 2 (17)

- Random variables - Exercise set 1 (14)

- Moment generating function - Exercise Set 1 (7)

- Expected value - Exercise Set 1 (4)

- Expected value - Exercise Set 2 (4)

- Variance - Exercise Set 1 (4)

- Variance - Exercise Set 2 (4)

- Properties of the expected value - Exercise Set 1 (2)

- Covariance - Exercise Set 1 (2)

- Covariance - Exercise Set 2 (2)

Multiple choice tests

The following is a list of some multiple choice tests where the term "random variable" appears.

- Probability distributions - Multiple choice test 2 (42)

- Probability distributions - Multiple choice test 1 (32)

- Fundamentals of probability theory - Multiple choice test 2 (22)

- Fundamentals of probability theory - Multiple choice test 3 (20)

Other glossary terms on StatLect

The following is a random selection of other glossary terms on StatLect.

- Almost surely

- a.s.

- cdf

- Conditional probability density

- Continuous random variable

- Convergence criterion

- Countable additivity

- Probability density