Re: cdt glossary [Function] (was: Terminology question)

Hi, Cimode

that information you can find in any probability textbook and some thousand sites on the web. You are perhaps familiar with:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_variable

Perhaps a good idea would be trying to delimit the scope of the definition making clear to what context one is referring to. Otherwise you will have to spend a lot of time asking hundreds of people on the different branches of human knowledge ...

Let take the notion of "object" Bob was challenging me about.

That can mean nearly everything, but if you are taking a computer science examination in oop and your professor ask you "what is an object" and you reply that women are considered like objects in some cultures, you would probably fail the exam (unless you are a woman and able to show how pleasant some objects can be... :).

That does not mean your answer is necessarily wrong. It's just "unexpected" in that context.

-P

Cimode ha scritto:

> pamelafluente_at_libero.it wrote:
>
> > That may be narrow for math. Uless you restrict to discrete domain.
> Define *narrow*...
>
> > Also what about the concept of random variable? Continuous Random
> > variables (rv) are also defined as measurable functions in the
> > axiomatic probability theory.
> Define random variable...What does random variable would have to do
> with definition of function. How do you measure a function?
Received on Thu Sep 07 2006 - 11:06:00 CEST