WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
ran′dom var′iable, [Statistics.]
- Statisticsa quantity that takes any of a set of values with specified probabilities.
- 1935–40
'random variable' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Markov process
- Monte Carlo method
- Student's t distribution
- T, t
- central limit theorem
- central tendency
- critical value
- distribution
- distribution function
- estimator
- frequency distribution
- lognormal distribution
- normal curve
- normal distribution
- probability curve
- probability density function
- probability distribution
- random
- stochastic
- stochastic variable
- variate