Talk:Independent and identically distributed random variables: Difference between revisions

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After noticing the lead contained a mixture of both, I made a bold edit in favour of IID which I personally find less visually distracting than the dots in i.i.d. when the term is dropped into every second sentence. However, IID is not exactly beautiful, either, and typographically I would advise {{sc2|IID}} (i.e. <tt><nowiki>{{sc2|IID}}</nowiki></tt>), except that this is apparently discouraged in the MOS. This article might the one where it makes sense to go against the recommended-style grain, though it's above my pay grade to decide this unilaterally. &mdash; [[user:MaxEnt|MaxEnt]] 00:57, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

== Usage of the phrase "random variables" ==

"An element in the sequence is independent of the random variables that came before it" ... "the probability distribution for the nth random variable is a function of the previous random variable in the sequence"

Shouldn't we use "element" or value instead of the phrase "random variables"in those sentences? Each value in the sequence is a random variable? Or the whole sequence is represented by a random variable? [[User:Sarmadys|Sarmadys]] ([[User talk:Sarmadys|talk]]) 05:46, 12 June 2017 (UTC)