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  2. Randomness - Wikipedia

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    Individual random events are, by definition, unpredictable, but if there is a known probability distribution, the frequency of different outcomes over repeated events (or "trials") is predictable. [ note 1 ] For example, when throwing two dice , the outcome of any particular roll is unpredictable, but a sum of 7 will tend to occur twice as ...

  3. Simple random sample - Wikipedia

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    If a systematic pattern is introduced into random sampling, it is referred to as "systematic (random) sampling". An example would be if the students in the school had numbers attached to their names ranging from 0001 to 1000, and we chose a random starting point, e.g. 0533, and then picked every 10th name thereafter to give us our sample of 100 ...

  4. Survey sampling - Wikipedia

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    [3] Random sampling and design-based inference are supplemented by other statistical methods, such as model-assisted sampling and model-based sampling. [4] [5] For example, many surveys have substantial amounts of nonresponse. Even though the units are initially chosen with known probabilities, the nonresponse mechanisms are unknown.

  5. Sampling (statistics) - Wikipedia

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    A visual representation of the sampling process. In statistics, quality assurance, and survey methodology, sampling is the selection of a subset or a statistical sample (termed sample for short) of individuals from within a statistical population to estimate characteristics of the whole population.

  6. Expected value - Wikipedia

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    Any definition of expected value may be extended to define an expected value of a multidimensional random variable, i.e. a random vector X. It is defined component by component, as E[ X ] i = E[ X i ] .

  7. Probability theory - Wikipedia

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    Probability theory or probability calculus is the branch of mathematics concerned with probability.Although there are several different probability interpretations, probability theory treats the concept in a rigorous mathematical manner by expressing it through a set of axioms.

  8. Statistics - Wikipedia

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    A random variable that is a function of the random sample and of the unknown parameter, but whose probability distribution does not depend on the unknown parameter is called a pivotal quantity or pivot. Widely used pivots include the z-score, the chi square statistic and Student's t-value.

  9. Randomness test - Wikipedia

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    Stephen Wolfram used randomness tests on the output of Rule 30 to examine its potential for generating random numbers, [1] though it was shown to have an effective key size far smaller than its actual size [2] and to perform poorly on a chi-squared test. [3] The use of an ill-conceived random number generator can put the validity of an ...