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

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== IID consistency ==

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)

:Your decision has my support, since dropping the [[full stops]] (or ''periods'') from [[initialism]]s (and other [[abbreviations]]) has been throughout the last century or more, and continues to be, a productive process in English writing, as seen in the following usages, for example:

* ''International Business Machines'' → ''I.B.M.'' → ''IBM''

* ''Company'' → ''Co.'' → ''Co''

* ''Proprietary Limited'' → ''Pty. Ltd.'' → ''Pty Ltd''

* ''et caetera'' (or ''et cetera'')'' → etc. → etc''

:As an aside, it seems to me a pity that the equivalent, but more euphonious, ''IDI'' – standing, obviously, for ''Identically Distributed and Independent'' – did not become the standard usage, as advocated by one of my lecturers in my youth. Oh well, ''c'est la guerre!'' [[User:Yahya Abdal-Aziz|yoyo]] ([[User talk:Yahya Abdal-Aziz|talk]]) 15:16, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

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