Random
Origin: Ar. hisp. azzahr
The word random is used to express apparent lack of purpose, cause, or order; dictated by chance. The term randomness is often used synonymously with a number of measurable statistical properties, such as lack of bias or correlation. Randomness also has an important place in science and philosophy.
Spanish: Aleatorio
Sources and references
- Donald Knuth, "Things A Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About"view
- Macer, Darryl ,“UNESCO Bioethics Dictionary”cited 74 times
Term connections
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Mentions
Mentioned by
- Analysis of variance
- Anticipatory democracy
- BIAS
- Bounded rationality
- Chaos Analysis Use in Forecasting
- Chaos theory
- Correlation
- Dynamical systems models
- Gaussian distribution
- Hindsight, historical view, retrospective
- Interactive scenarios
- Lateral thinking
- Linear systems
- Mode
- Monte Carlo method
- Noise
- Opinion polling
- Random number generators
- Synchronicity
- Trust interval or certainty (accuracy) interval
- Uncertain
- Variables
- Variance
- Variance analysis
- Wild cards
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