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A random variable is a mathematical function that maps outcomes of random experiments to numbers. It can be thought of as the numeric result of operating a non-deterministic mechanism or performing a ...

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The Poisson noise channel with the input random variable \(X\), the scaling factor \(a\), the dark current parameter \(\lambda\), and the ouput random variable \(Y\). Poisson noise models are an ...

A random variable that can take only a certain specified set of individual possible values-for example, the positive integers 1, 2, 3, . . . For example, stock prices are discrete random variables, ...