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Recent Examples on the Web This puzzling curve seemed to be the complex cousin of the familiar bell curve, or Gaussian distribution, which represents the natural variation of independent random variables like the heights of students in a classroom or their test scores. — Quanta Magazine, 15 Oct. 2014 There are too many random variables at play -- including the crazy crowd noise -- to make this a consistently formful race. — Katia Porzecanski, Bloomberg.com, 4 May 2018

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“Random variable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/random%20variable. Accessed 24 Jun. 2022.

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