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Chapter 4 Discrete random variables

We are not always interested in an experiment itself, but rather in some consequence of its random outcome. For example, in a football match, we may be interested the total number of goals that team A or team B scored, but not really concerned by how the game played out. Random variables give us a way to think about these consequences in those situations when they take real values.