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| An outcome is random if we know the possible values it can have, but not which particular value it takes |
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| Generating random numbers |
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| Random numbers are hard to generate, but several Internet sites offer an unlimited supply of equally likely random values |
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| Models a real-world situation by using random-digit outcomes to mimic the uncertainty of a response variable of interest |
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| A component uses equally likely random digits to model simple random occurrences whose outcomes may not be equally likely |
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| The sequence of several components representing events that we are pretending will take place |
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| Values of the response variable record the results of each trial with respect to what we were interested in |
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