Timeline for How is the notation $X\sim N(\mu,\sigma^2)$ read?
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| Aug 14, 2015 at 23:12 | history | edited | mandata | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 27, 2015 at 21:45 | history | edited | mandata | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 17, 2015 at 19:03 | comment | added | conjugateprior | For the record, $\sim$ is a tilde. Tilda is a brand of basmati rice :-) | |
| Jul 17, 2015 at 18:58 | comment | added | conjugateprior | X is indeed a random variable and x might be one of its values. But that means there's no approximation: everything there is to (definitively) know about X is stated in the expression we're discussing. | |
| Jul 16, 2015 at 17:40 | comment | added | mandata | $X$ represents a variable, not a set of values. | |
| Jul 16, 2015 at 17:04 | comment | added | not | Why not? There are populations that are entirely known. | |
| Jul 16, 2015 at 16:55 | history | answered | mandata | CC BY-SA 3.0 |