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random variable (medicine)


random variable


A variable that may assume a set of values, each with fixed probabilities or probability densities (its distribution), in such a way that the total probability assigned to the distribution is unity; the random variable may be discrete, continuous, or mixed discrete-continuous.


manticore (iou)



manticore noun. . ME.
[Latin manticora repr. Greek mantikhoras, corrupt reading in Aristotle for martikhoras, from an Old Persian word for 'man-eater'.]
A fabulous monster having the body of a lion, the head of a man, porcupine's quills, and the tail or sting of a scorpion. ME.
Heraldry. A monster represented with the body of a beast of prey, the head of a man, sometimes with spiral or curved horns, and sometimes the feet of a dragon. L15.