RANDOM VARIABLE AS A MEASUREMENT
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- Think of much more complicated experiments
- A chemical reaction.
- A laser emitting photons.
- A packet arriving to an IMP.
- We cannot give an exact description of a sample space in these cases, but we can still describe specific measurements on them:
- The temperature change produced.
- The number of photons emitted in one millisecond.
- The time of arrival of the packet.
- Thus a random variable can be thought of as a measurement on an experiment.
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