• In probability theory, random element is a generalization of the concept of random variable to more complicated spaces than the simple real line. The...
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    term random function is also used to refer to a stochastic or random process, because a stochastic process can also be interpreted as a random element in...
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    the range of a random variable is a subset of the real numbers. Informally, randomness typically represents some fundamental element of chance, such...
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  • probability theory, a random measure is a measure-valued random element. Random measures are for example used in the theory of random processes, where they...
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    sampling have two things in common: Every element has a known nonzero probability of being sampled and involves random selection at some point. Nonprobability...
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    the analogues of multivariate normal vectors for the case k = ∞. A random element h ∈ H is said to be normal if for any constant a ∈ H the scalar product...
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  • people's emotions and bring planet after planet under his control. He is a random element not foreseen by psychohistory, a science developed by Hari Seldon which...
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  • operate on random permutations. Suppose, for example, that we are using quickselect (a cousin of quicksort) to select a random element of a random permutation...
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    person from within a group would be a random vector. Normally each element of a random vector is a real number. Random vectors are often used as the underlying...
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  • of functions of random variables / (1:R) Bertrand's paradox / (1:M) Pitman–Yor process / (1:G) Random compact set / (1:G) Random element / (1:G) Coupling /...
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  • without modification if X is a discrete random vector or even a discrete random element. The case of a continuous random variable is more subtle, since the...
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    Fisher–Yates shuffle (category Randomized algorithms)
    sequence, and continually determines the next element in the shuffled sequence by randomly drawing an element from the list until no elements remain. The...
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  • element has index 0, and the last element has index n − 1), and for each position i swap the element currently there with a randomly chosen element from...
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    generating a random permutation of a[0], a[1], ..., a[n − 1] can be described as follows in pseudocode: for i from n downto 2 do di ← random element of { 0...
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  • the element z. Quite similarly, the covariance function of a function-valued random element (in special cases is called random process or random field)...
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    Mercury is a chemical element; it has symbol Hg and atomic number 80. It is commonly known as quicksilver. A heavy, silvery d-block element, mercury is the...
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    for randomized data, particularly on larger distributions. Quicksort is a divide-and-conquer algorithm. It works by selecting a "pivot" element from...
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  • distance), which could lead to an overestimate of average income. This non-random element is a source of uncertainty about the nature of the actual sample. Quota...
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    more and more of the random element in the state of the world, then the arrow is pointing towards the future; if the random element decreases the arrow...
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    The government decided in 1969 to reduce this bias by introducing a random element into the selection process. A lottery based on birth dates was conducted...
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  • sequences of scalar/vector/matrix random elements. If X n {\displaystyle X_{n}} converges in distribution to a random element X {\displaystyle X} and Y n {\displaystyle...
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  • Bogosort (redirect from Random sort)
    bogo_sort(random_array): while not is_sorted(random_array): random.shuffle(random_array) return random_array # this function generates an array with randomly chosen...
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  • Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House. Founded in 1927 by businessmen Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer as an imprint...
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  • {\displaystyle {\widetilde {Y}}_{k}} , not only has a contribution from a random element but one of the observed quantities, specifically Y k {\displaystyle...
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  • however, quicksort chooses some random element to be the pivot, then an adversary without knowledge of what random numbers are coming up cannot arrange...
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  • proof of the first is more involved. It can be shown that if Y is a random element Ω → S {\displaystyle \Omega \to S} in a Radon space S, there exists...
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  • matrix whose element in the i, j position is the covariance between the i-th element of a random vector and j-th element of another random vector. When...
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    Penguin Random House Limited is a British-American multinational conglomerate publishing company formed on July 1, 2013, with the merger of Penguin Books...
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    which element of the game is foremost in its play; a board game using cards for random actions can usually use some other method of randomization, while...
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  • Circular ensemble (category Algebra of random variables)
    If U is a random element of CUE(n), then UTU is a random element of COE(n); if U is a random element of CUE(2n), then URU is a random element of CSE(n)...
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